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1982, Michael Gambon played Antony and Helen Mirren played Cleopatra for the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, and later at The Pit at The Barbican Centre, in a production directed by Adrian Noble.
Jun 2, 2020 · Antony and Cleopatra tells the story of a romance between two powerful lovers: Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony, who rules the Roman Empire with Octavius Caesar and Lepidus. Although he is needed in Rome, Antony lingers in Egypt with Cleopatra.
Mark Antony, one of three rulers of Rome, is in love with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Antony is summoned back to Rome, where he clashes with another ruler Octavius before returning to Cleopatra in Egypt.
In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around 30 BCE. Rome’s first emperor, Octavius Caesar ( later to be called Augustus Caesar), has a prominent role in the play.
The principal source of the play was Sir Thomas North’s Parallel Lives (1579), an English version of Plutarch’s Bioi parallēloi. The story concerns Mark Antony, Roman military leader and triumvir, who is besottedly in love with Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and former mistress of Pompey
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Aug 15, 2023 · Antony and Cleopatra dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the Roman Empire. The future first emperor, Octavius Caesar (later called Augustus Caesar), cold-bloodedly manipulates other characters and exercises iron control over himself.
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Overview. Antony and Cleopatra, one of William Shakespeare ’s last tragedies, was mostly likely written and first performed in 1606. The most geographically sweeping of Shakespeare’s plays, its setting is the entire Roman Empire, and its backdrop is the well-documented history of Mark Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavius Caesar.
