WeRead Powered by ReaderPub

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare cover

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 36: THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

By William Shakespeare

Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

British Literature Classics of Literature Plays/Films/Dramas Poetry

About This Book

This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

THE TRAGEDY OF ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

Contents

Scene I. Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene II. Alexandria. Another Room in Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene III. Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra’s palace.

Scene IV. Rome. An Apartment in Caesar’s House

Scene V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Scene I. Messina. A Room in Pompey’s house.

Scene II. Rome. A Room in the House of Lepidus.

Scene III. Rome. A Room in Caesar’s House.

Scene IV. Rome. A street.

Scene V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Scene VI. Near Misenum.

Scene VII. On board Pompey’s Galley, lying near Misenum.

Scene I. A plain in Syria.

Scene II. Rome. An Ante-chamber in Caesar’s house.

Scene III. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Scene IV. Athens. A Room in Antony’s House.

Scene V. Athens. Another Room in Antony’s House.

Scene VI. Rome. A Room in Caesar’s House.

Scene VII. Antony’s Camp near the Promontory of Actium.

Scene VIII. A plain near Actium.

Scene IX. Another part of the Plain.

Scene X. Another part of the Plain.

Scene XI. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Scene XII. Caesar’s camp in Egypt.

Scene XIII. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Scene I. Caesar’s Camp at Alexandria.

Scene II. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Scene III. Alexandria. Before the Palace.

Scene IV. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Scene V. Antony’s camp near Alexandria.

Scene VI. Alexandria. Caesar’s camp.

Scene VII. Field of battle between the Camps.

Scene VIII. Under the Walls of Alexandria.

Scene IX. Caesar’s camp.

Scene X. Ground between the two Camps.

Scene XI. Another part of the Ground.

Scene XII. Another part of the Ground.

Scene XIII. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.

Scene XIV. Alexandria. Another Room.

Scene XV. Alexandria. A monument.

Scene I. Caesar’s Camp before Alexandria.

Scene II. Alexandria. A Room in the Monument.