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      William Shakespeare, Sidney Lee

      ANTONY & CLEOPATRA

      Including The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare

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      ISBN 978-80-272-3669-5

Table of Contents

       Antony and Cleopatra

       PERSONS REPRESENTED.

       ACT I.

       ACT II.

       ACT III.

       ACT IV.

       ACT V.

       The Life of William Shakespeare

       PREFACE

       I—PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

       II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE

       III—THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD

       IV—ON THE LONDON STAGE

       V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

       VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC

       VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY

       VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS

       IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON

       X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS

       XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER

       XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE

       XIII—MATURITY OF GENIUS

       XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY

       XV—THE LATEST PLAYS

       XVI—THE CLOSE OF LIFE

       XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS

       XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS

       XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

       XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

       XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATE

       APPENDIX

      Antony and Cleopatra

      PERSONS REPRESENTED.

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       M.ANTONY, Triumvir

       OCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir

       M. AEMIL. LEPIDUS, Triumvir

       SEXTUS POMPEIUS Triumvir

       DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, friend to Antony

       VENTIDIUS, friend to Antony

       EROS, friend to Antony

       SCARUS, friend to Antony

       DERCETAS, friend to Antony

       DEMETRIUS, friend to Antony

       PHILO, friend to Antony

       MAECENAS, friend to Caesar

       AGRIPPA, friend to Caesar

       DOLABELLA, friend to Caesar

       PROCULEIUS, friend to Caesar

       THYREUS, friend to Caesar

       GALLUS, friend to Caesar

       MENAS, friend to Pompey

       MENECRATES, friend to Pompey

       VARRIUS, friend to Pompey

       TAURUS, Lieutenant-General to Caesar

       CANIDIUS, Lieutenant-General to Antony

       SILIUS, an Officer in Ventidius’s army

       EUPHRONIUS, an Ambassador from Antony to Caesar

       ALEXAS, attendant on Cleopatra

       MARDIAN, attendant on Cleopatra

       SELEUCUS, attendant on Cleopatra

       DIOMEDES, attendant on Cleopatra

       A SOOTHSAYER

       A CLOWN

       CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt

       OCTAVIA, sister to Caesar and wife to Antony

       CHARMIAN, Attendant on Cleopatra

       IRAS, Attendant on Cleopatra

       Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants SCENE: Dispersed, in several parts of the Roman Empire.

ACT I.

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