«ANTONY AND

CLEOPATRA» BY
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
Taisiya Susareva 10-A
Tragedy

 "Antony and Cleopatra" is a tragedy by

William Shakespeare with a plot based
on Thomas North’s translation of
Plutarch’s life of Mark Antony from the
French translation by Jacques Amiot.
 The play was first performed by The
King's Men at Blackfriars or the Globe
Theater around 1607. Its first appearance
in print was in the 1623 folio. Written
either 1607 or 1603–1604.
Dating and text

Many scholars believe that Shakespeare's play was composed

in 1606–07, although some scholars argue for an earlier date,
around 1603–04.

Antony and Cleopatra was entered into the Stationers'

Register in May 1608, but it appears not to have actually
been printed until the publication of the First Folio in 1623.
The folio is therefore the only authoritative text today.

Some scholars suggest that it originates from Shakespeare's

own draft, or "shoddy papers", as it contains minor errors in
speech patterns and scene directions considered
characteristic of an author in the process of composing.
Characters

• Mark Antony , Octavius ​Caesar , Lepidus - triumvirs

• Sextus Pompey, Domitius
Enobarbus, Ventidius, Silius, Eros, Canidius, Scarus, Derket, Demetrius, Philo - followers of Antony
• Maecenas, Agrippa, Taurus, Dolabella, Proculeus, Phidias, Gall - followers of Caesar
• Menas, Menecritus, Varrius - followers of Pompey
• Euphronius - Anthony's messenger to Caesar
• Alexas, Mardian, Diomedes - Cleopatra's courtiers
• Seleucus - Cleopatra's treasurer
• Predictor
• Villager (The Clown )
• Cleopatra - queen of Egypt
• Octavia - Caesar's sister
• Charmiana, Irada - servants of Cleopatra
Film adaptations and productions
There are currently twenty-one film adaptations There is no information about the earliest productions.
of the tragedy "Anthony and Cleoparta“.The The first known production was on May 20, 1608, at the
last one was filmed in 2018. Entertainment Stations Hall (London).
Interesting facts

 The asp with which Cleopatra kills

herself was sacred to the Egyptian
royal family and was believed to
deify those it struck.
 Until the Restoration in 1660, Cleopatra
would have been performed on stage
by a young male actor.
 Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
appeared in a famously sumptuous
film adaptation called simply
Cleopatra in 1963 - a film which was
itself lampooned as Carry on Cleo the
following year.
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