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[antony + cleopatra is a ‘tragedy’ by ‘william shakespeare’]
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(the play was performed first circa ‘1607’ at the ‘blackfriars theatre’ or the ‘globe theatre’ by the “king’s men”)
(its first appearance in print was in the ‘folio’ of ‘1623’)
(the plot is based on thomas north’s translation of plutarch’s lives and follows the relationship between ‘cleopatra’ + ‘mark antony’ from the time of the ‘sicilian revolt’ to cleopatra’s suicide during the ‘final war’ of the ‘roman republic’)
(the major antagonist is ‘octavius caesar, one of antony’s fellow ‘triumvirs’ of the ‘2nd triumvirate’ + the first emperor of the ‘roman empire’)
(the tragedy is mainly set in ‘rome’ + ‘egypt’, and is characterized by swift shifts in ‘geographical location’ + ‘linguistic register’ as it alternates between sensual + imaginative ‘alexandria’ + a more pragmatic + austere ‘rome’)
(many consider shakespeare’s ‘cleopatra’ – whom the playwright described as having ‘infinite variety’* – as 1 of the most ‘complex’ + ‘fully-developed’ female characters in his entire body of work)
(she is frequently ‘vain’ + ‘histrionic’ enough to provoke an audience almost to scorn)
(at the same time, ‘shakespeare’ invests her (along with her ‘antony’) with ‘tragic grandeur’)
(these contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses)
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(it is difficult to classify antony + cleopatra as belonging to a single ‘genre’…)
‘history’ play’
(though it does not completely adhere to historical accounts),
as a tragedy (though not completely in Aristotelian terms),
as a comedy,
as a romance,
and according to some critics (e.g. ‘mccarter’, a ‘problem play’)
(all one can say with certainty is that it is a ‘roman play’)
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