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== Productions at the Folger == | == Productions at the Folger == | ||
*[[Antony and Cleopatra (2017)|''Antony and Cleopatra'' (2017)]] | |||
*[[Antony and Cleopatra (Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, 1993)|''Antony and Cleopatra'' (Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, 1993)]] | *[[Antony and Cleopatra (Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, 1993)|''Antony and Cleopatra'' (Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, 1993)]] | ||
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Hamnet link to Folger Edition: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=192087/ PR2753 .M6 2003 copy 2 v.02] | Hamnet link to Folger Edition: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=192087/ PR2753 .M6 2003 copy 2 v.02] | ||
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== Translations == | == Translations == | ||
The Folger owns almost fifty stand-alone translations of ''Antony and Cleopatra'' in various languages (not including collected works). Cataloging of these works is ongoing as of early 2015, and many have full-level catalog records, but some works still have only partial records. Translations can be found [[Hamnet]] in by searching for "Translations"in the '''Genre/Form Term''' field, or by searching the '''Call Number (Left-Anchored)''' field for call numbers starting with PR2796 (see the list of [[List of Sh.Col. call numbers#PR2796 .E2.80.93 Translations|Sh.Col. translations call numbers]] for specific language call numbers). Since not all translations are fully cataloged, some items may only turn up in one of these searches. | |||
== Performance materials == | == Performance materials == | ||
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== Other media == | == Other media == | ||
Listen to author Adrian Goldsworthy discuss "The True Story of Antony and Cleopatra" and why this famous couple is so perenially misunderstood. | Listen to author Adrian Goldsworthy on NPR's ''Talk of the Nation'' discuss "The True Story of Antony and Cleopatra" and why this famous couple is so perenially misunderstood. (September 28, 2010) | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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[[Category: William Shakespeare's works]] | [[Category: William Shakespeare's works]] |
Revision as of 11:16, 23 June 2020
This article is about Shakespeare's play. For other uses, see Antony and Cleopatra (disambiguation).
Antony and Cleopatra, one of William Shakespeare's plays dramatizes a major event in world history: the founding of the Roman Empire. The future first emperor, Octavius Caesar (later called Augustus Caesar), cold-bloodedly manipulates other characters and exercises iron control over himself.
At first, he shares power with Mark Antony, Rome's preeminent military leader, and the weaker Lepidus. Caesar needs Antony to fend off other Roman strongmen like Pompey; he even offers his sister Octavia to him as a bride, despite Antony's reputation as a libertine and his past rivalry with Caesar. Once Caesar defeats Pompey, however, he needs no allies. He brings charges against Lepidus, denies Antony his spoils from Pompey's defeat, and seizes cities in the eastern Roman colonies that Antony rules.
The play's emphasis, however, is on those whom Caesar defeats: Antony and his wealthy Egyptian ally, Queen Cleopatra. The play does not sugarcoat Antony and Cleopatra's famous love affair, including her calculated attempts to seduce Antony from his duties and his rage when he thinks she has betrayed him to Caesar. Nonetheless, the lovers find such sensual and emotional satisfaction that Caesar's world conquest seems smaller than what they find in each other.
Scholars believe that Shakespeare wrote this play in 1606-07. It was published in the 1623 First Folio. Sources include North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and Appian's Roman Wars.[1]
Productions at the Folger
Early editions
First Folio
- LUNA: First Folio: w6v - 2z2v
- Hamnet: STC 22273 Fo. 1 no. 68
Second Folio
- LUNA: Second Folio: 2y4v - 3a5v
- Hamnet: STC 22274 Fo. 2 no. 07
Modern editions
Antony and Cleopatra can be read online with Folger Digital Texts and purchased from Simon and Schuster.
Hamnet link to Folger Edition: PR2753 .M6 2003 copy 2 v.02
In popular culture
Translations
The Folger owns almost fifty stand-alone translations of Antony and Cleopatra in various languages (not including collected works). Cataloging of these works is ongoing as of early 2015, and many have full-level catalog records, but some works still have only partial records. Translations can be found Hamnet in by searching for "Translations"in the Genre/Form Term field, or by searching the Call Number (Left-Anchored) field for call numbers starting with PR2796 (see the list of Sh.Col. translations call numbers for specific language call numbers). Since not all translations are fully cataloged, some items may only turn up in one of these searches.
Performance materials
Other media
Listen to author Adrian Goldsworthy on NPR's Talk of the Nation discuss "The True Story of Antony and Cleopatra" and why this famous couple is so perenially misunderstood. (September 28, 2010)
<audio src="https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/media/images_pedia_folgerpedia_mw/6/6e/Antony_and_Cleopatra_mp3.mp3" controls="" preload=""></audio>
Notes
- ↑ Adapted from the Folger Library Shakespeare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 1999 Folger Shakespeare Library.