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Title: Anthony and Cleopatra Presentation
Description: This is a powerpoint file detailing the themes, context and some quotations within Anthony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare.
Description: This is a powerpoint file detailing the themes, context and some quotations within Anthony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare.
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Antony and Cleopatra
Horrible Histories
Context
Written in 1606
and set in Egypt
and Italy
...
D 46120)
Takes place two years
after Julius Caesar,
another popular
Shakespeare play
...
Cleopatra could not be
portrayed as the strong,
intelligent ruler portrayed in
Plutarch’ account
...
James was repeatedly
compared to Caesar
Augustus, or the
character of Octavian
in the play
...
Antony and Cleopatra could
have shown the shift in
power from republican
power to that of one man
...
Themes
Antony is seen to
have abandoned
the military
endeavors on which
his reputation is
based for a
The Struggle Between woman’s sake
...
As the play progresses, Antony
continues to inhabit conflicting
identities
...
Themes
They have to choose
between being loyal
to their ideals and
being loyal to their
circumstances
...
Betrayal always
hangs over their
heads
...
Themes
Gender
Cleopatra is one of
Shakespeare’s most
powerful female
characters
...
Antony forsakes his
masculinity by
allowing Cleopatra to
be the ‘commander of
his heart’
...
This
makes her something new and exciting
to him
...
When the
play opens, he has been neglecting his duties
as a ruler in favour of Cleopatra, the Egyptian
Queen
...
She is volatile and
theatrical and, although she often makes a
spectacle of her emotions, no one can
doubt that she loves Antony
...
Can
Fulvia die?’
Cleopatra is feeling betrayed
because she recognises that
Fulvia’s marriage to Antony
would be more important than
her love as his Mistress
...
’
Antony – ‘There’s beggary in the
love that can be reckon’d
...
’
Antony – ‘Then must though
needs find out new heaven, new
earth
Title: Anthony and Cleopatra Presentation
Description: This is a powerpoint file detailing the themes, context and some quotations within Anthony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare.
Description: This is a powerpoint file detailing the themes, context and some quotations within Anthony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare.