CLEOPATRA

Cleopatra

Cleopatra

This passage depicts one of the rare liesure moments inolving Antony and Cleopatra in an otherwise a masterpiece work of tragedy by Shakespeare. This passage depicts that both Antony and Cleopatra are having a good time while in Alexanderia, the city which at that time, was the cultural hub of Egypt (Shakespeare, 1995).

Shakespeare refashioned the story of Antony and Cleopatra into a complex rendering of a corruption that ennobles as it destroys. The play may lack the single, poignant representative character of the great tragedies, but it extends its significance by taking the whole world for its canvas.

As a tragic ...