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The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra - ebook
The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra - ebook
With a strong spirit and body, people who are ready to endure all sorts of hardships and difficulties for the sake of the cause of their whole life, their blood, their feats inscribing their names in the history of mankind, also end up being tested, which turn out to be stronger than them. And for the sake of this, a person is able to erase his entire former life overnight. This happens with Anthony, an honorary Roman who fell in love with the proud queen of Egypt. For his sake he forgot Rome and the family, and Caesar.
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FRAGMENT KSIĄŻKI
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ACT I
SCENE I. Alexandria. A Room in CLEOPATRA'S palace.
SCENE II. Alexandria. Another Room in CLEOPATRA'S palace.
SCENE III. Alexandria. A Room in CLEOPATRA'S palace.
SCENE IV. Rome. An Apartment in CAESAR'S House.
SCENE V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
ACT II
SCENE I. Messina. A Room in POMPEY'S house.
SCENE II. Rome. A Room in the House of LEPIDUS.
SCENE III. Rome. A Room in CAESAR'S House.
SCENE IV. Rome. A street.
SCENE V. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
SCENE VI. Near Misenum.
SCENE VII. On board POMPEY'S Galley, lying near Misenum.
ACT III
SCENE I. A plain in Syria.
SCENE II. Rome. An Ante-chamber in CAESAR'S house.
SCENE III. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
SCENE IV. Athens. A Room in ANTONY'S House.
SCENE V. Athens. Another Room in ANTONY'S House.
SCENE VI. Rome. A Room in CAESAR'S House.
SCENE VII. ANTONY'S Camp near the Promontory of Actium.
SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium.
SCENE IX. Another part of the Plain.
SCENE X. Another part of the Plain.
SCENE XI. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
SCENE XII. CAESAR'S camp in Egypt.
SCENE XIII. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
ACT IV
SCENE I. CAESAR'S Camp at Alexandria.
SCENE II. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
SCENE III. Alexandria. Before the Palace.
SCENE IV. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
SCENE V. ANTONY'S camp near Alexandria.
SCENE VI. Alexandria. CAESAR'S camp.
SCENE VII. Field of battle between the Camps.
SCENE VIII. Under the Walls of Alexandria.
SCENE IX. CAESAR'S camp.
SCENE X. Ground between the two Camps.
SCENE XI. Another part of the Ground.
SCENE XII. Another part of the Ground.
SCENE XIII. Alexandria. A Room in the Palace.
SCENE XIV. Alexandria. Another Room.
SCENE XV. Alexandria. A monument.
ACT V
SCENE I. CAESAR'S Camp before Alexandria.
SCENE II. Alexandria. A Room in the Monument.DRAMATIS PERSONAE
M.ANTONY, Triumvir
OCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir
M. AEMIL. LEPIDUS, Triumvir
SEXTUS POMPEIUS
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, treasurer to Cleopatra
DIOMEDES, attendant on Cleopatra
A SOOTHSAYER
A CLOWN
CLEOPATRA, Queen of Egypt
OCTAVIA, Sister to Caesar
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
SCENE I. Alexandria. A Room in CLEOPATRA’S palace
PHILO.
Nay, but this dotage of our general’s
O’erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,
That o’er the files and musters of the war
Have glow’d like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,
The office and devotion of their view
Upon a tawny front: his captain’s heart,
Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,
And is become the bellows and the fan
To cool a gipsy’s lust.
Look where they come:
Take but good note, and you shall see in him
The triple pillar of the world transform’d
Into a strumpet’s fool: behold and see.
CLEOPATRA.
If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
ANTONY.
There’s beggary in the love that can be reckon’d.
CLEOPATRA.
I’ll set a bourn how far to be belov’d.
ANTONY.
Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
ATTENDANT.
News, my good lord, from Rome.
ANTONY.
Grates me:–the sum.
CLEOPATRA.
Nay, hear them, Antony:
Fulvia perchance is angry; or who knows
If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent
His powerful mandate to you: ‘Do this or this;
Take in that kingdom and enfranchise that;
Perform’t, or else we damn thee.’
ANTONY.
How, my love!
CLEOPATRA.
Perchance! Nay, and most like:–
You must not stay here longer,–your dismission
Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.–
Where’s Fulvia’s process?–Caesar’s I would say?–Both?–
Call in the messengers.–As I am Egypt’s queen,
Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine
Is Caesar’s homager: else so thy cheek pays shame
When shrill-tongu’d Fulvia scolds.–The messengers!
ANTONY.
Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the rang’d empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life
Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair
And such a twain can do’t, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet
We stand up peerless.
CLEOPATRA.
Excellent falsehood!
Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?–
I’ll seem the fool I am not; Antony
Will be himself.
ANTONY.
But stirr’d by Cleopatra.–
Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,
Let’s not confound the time with conference harsh:
There’s not a minute of our lives should stretch
Without some pleasure now:–what sport to-night?
CLEOPATRA.
Hear the ambassadors.
ANTONY.
Fie, wrangling queen!
Whom everything becomes,–to chide, to laugh,
To weep; whose every passion fully strives
To make itself in thee fair and admir’d!
No messenger; but thine, and all alone
To-night we’ll wander through the streets and note
The qualities of people. Come, my queen;
Last night you did desire it:–speak not to us.
DEMETRIUS.
Is Caesar with Antonius priz’d so slight?
PHILO.
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