Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra is a play by Shakespeare. It is a tragedy. Shakespeare's source was Plutarch's Lives. The play was first performed between 1606 and 1607. It was probably first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The play describes the romantic love and suicides of Antony and Cleopatra.
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 The first page of Antony and Cleopatra, from the First Folio | |
| Written by | William Shakespeare |
| Characters | Antony Octavius Caesar Cleopatra |
| Date of premiere | 1606-1607 |
| Place of premiere | London, England |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Setting | Alexandria, Egypt Rome and Misenum, Italy |
Antony And Cleopatra Media
Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse (1888)
In this Baroque vision, Battle of Actium by Laureys a Castro (1672), Cleopatra flees, lower left, in a barge with a figurehead of Fortuna.
Cleopatra and the Peasant, Eugène Delacroix (1838)
Roman painting from the House of Giuseppe II, Pompeii, early 1st century AD, most likely depicting Cleopatra VII, wearing her royal diadem, consuming poison in an act of suicide, while her son Caesarion, also wearing a royal diadem, stands behind her
Cleopatra and Mark Antony on the obverse and reverse, respectively, of a silver tetradrachm struck at the Antioch mint in 36 BC
A Roman Second Style painting in the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus at Pompeii, Italy, depicting Cleopatra as Venus Genetrix and her son Caesarion as a cupid, mid-1st century BC
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