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Antony and Cleopatra

American  

noun

  1. a tragedy (1606–07?) by Shakespeare.


Antony and Cleopatra Cultural  
  1. A tragedy by William Shakespeare. It dramatizes the grand but ill-fated love of the Roman general Mark Antony and Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt (see also Egypt).


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The focus is on Antony and Cleopatra as mature lovers.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2022

When Patrick played Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra in 1973, he was wry, wise, sensible, sensitive.

From The Guardian Jul. 9, 2020

If forced to choose, Shakespeare would side with Dido, not Aeneas, and he honors the incandescent passion between Antony and Cleopatra as worth more than all of eternal Rome.

From Washington Post May 22, 2019

Much of his early work was in the theatre, where he appeared in Oliver! in the West End and a Peter Hall production of Antony and Cleopatra - with Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins.

From BBC Nov. 19, 2018

A Life of Fun and Frolic In Alexandria, Mark Antony and Cleopatra happily picked up where they had left off in Tarsus.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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