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Page xxxviii
... Iras on the stage , Cleopatra send two handmaids to prepare for her final performance , which is comparable with her first encounter with Mark Antony at Cy Stage directions allow only Iras to go out , leaving Charmi hear , or overhear ...
... Iras on the stage , Cleopatra send two handmaids to prepare for her final performance , which is comparable with her first encounter with Mark Antony at Cy Stage directions allow only Iras to go out , leaving Charmi hear , or overhear ...
Page xxxix
... Iras have set the stage for her perhaps by removing the wretched couch on which she lay at the beginning of this scene and replacing it with the ' bed of gold ' where Caesar ( according to Plutarch ) found her dead body . Now they ...
... Iras have set the stage for her perhaps by removing the wretched couch on which she lay at the beginning of this scene and replacing it with the ' bed of gold ' where Caesar ( according to Plutarch ) found her dead body . Now they ...
Page xlvi
... Canidius Scarus Maecenas Thidias Proculeius Agrippa officers and followers of Caesar Dolabella Taurus Gallus Menas Menacretes followers of Pompey Varrus EGYPT Cleopatra queen of Egypt Charmian Iras her personal attendants.
... Canidius Scarus Maecenas Thidias Proculeius Agrippa officers and followers of Caesar Dolabella Taurus Gallus Menas Menacretes followers of Pompey Varrus EGYPT Cleopatra queen of Egypt Charmian Iras her personal attendants.
Page xlvii
William Shakespeare Roma Gill. EGYPT Cleopatra queen of Egypt Charmian Iras her personal attendants Alexas her minister Mardian a eunuch Seleucus her treasurer Diomedes a servant Clown a countryman Messengers , servants , officers ...
William Shakespeare Roma Gill. EGYPT Cleopatra queen of Egypt Charmian Iras her personal attendants Alexas her minister Mardian a eunuch Seleucus her treasurer Diomedes a servant Clown a countryman Messengers , servants , officers ...
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Contents
I | 1 |
III | 3 |
IV | 11 |
V | 16 |
VI | 19 |
VII | 23 |
IX | 25 |
X | 34 |
XXV | 76 |
XXVI | 79 |
XXVII | 82 |
XXVIII | 83 |
XXIX | 93 |
XXXI | 94 |
XXXII | 96 |
XXXIII | 98 |
XI | 36 |
XII | 37 |
XIII | 42 |
XIV | 48 |
XV | 55 |
XVII | 57 |
XVIII | 61 |
XIX | 63 |
XX | 65 |
XXI | 66 |
XXII | 70 |
XXIII | 75 |
XXXIV | 100 |
XXXV | 101 |
XXXVI | 102 |
XXXVII | 104 |
XXXVIII | 106 |
XXXIX | 107 |
XL | 108 |
XLI | 111 |
XLII | 112 |
XLIII | 123 |
XLV | 126 |
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Act 4 Scene Actium Agrippa Alexandria Alexas Antony and Cleopatra Antony Cleopatra Antony's audience battle battle of Actium brother Caesar and Antony Caesarion Canidius characters Charmian Cleopatra Antony dead death Dercetus Diomedes Dolabella drink Egypt Egyptian Enobarbus Enter Antony enter Cleopatra Eros Eros Antony eunuch Events in history Exeunt Act Exit eyes Farewell fight follow fortune friends Fulvia give gods Guard hand hath hear heart honour horse i'th Iras Julius Caesar kings leave Lepidus live look lord madam Maecenas Marcus Crassus Mardian Mark Antony married Menas Messenger Cleopatra never noble o'th Octavia Octavius Caesar Parthia peace play Plutarch Pompey Pompey's pray Proculeius queen Roman Rome Scarus Scene 13 Seleucus Servant Sextus Pompeius Shakespeare Soldier Soothsayer speak stage sword tell thee There's Thidias thine thou hast thought triumph triumvirs trumpets Ventidius whilst wife woman words