Shakespeare's use of hyperbole in Antony and Cleopatra

Hyperbole is a trope that is to exaggerate, increasing or decreasing the truth of what is being spoken, so that one receives a message that is being given more importance towards the action itself and not so much towards the quality of the action. In other words it's the use of exaggeration as a figure of speech or a rhetorical device. Shakespeare has used the figure hyperbole a number of times in his play 'Antony and Cleopatra' in order to intensify the effect and on the point where the emphasis was being given. Shakespeare ...