Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare · c. 1607 CE · Play · English · Renaissance

One of Rome's three rulers has been in Egypt with its queen while his responsibilities pile up at home, and news from Italy finally calls him back. He patches the alliance with a political marriage, returns to Alexandria anyway, and stakes a war at sea on it. An empire thrown away for a love too large for it; Rome's measure against Egypt's infinite variety.

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• continues ↑ Julius Caesar
  William Shakespeare · c. 1599 CE · Play
• alludes to ↑ The Aeneid
  Virgil · 19 BCE · Poem
• ↓ Caesar and Cleopatra
  George Bernard Shaw · 1901 CE · Play — responds to this

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