General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: Ginn Subjects: Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. PERSONS REPRESENTED. Friends to Antony. Mark Antony, Octavius C/esar, ) Triumvirs. M. emilius Lepidus, Sextus Pompeius. DOMITIUS ENOliARBUS, Ventidius, Eros, SCARUS, Dercetas, Demetrius, Philo, MECjENAS, Agrippa, DOLAliELLA, Proculeius, Friends of Csesar. Thyreus, Gallus, Taurus, Lieutenant-General to Cae- Canidius, Lieutenant-General to Antony. Menas, Menecrates, L Friends of Pompey. Varrius, J Silius, an Officer in Ventidius's Army. Euphronius, an Ambassador from Antony to Caesar. Alexas, Mardian, Seleucus, and Diomedes, Attendants on Cleopatra. A Soothsayer. A Clown. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Octavia, Sister to Caesar, and Wife to Antony. Charmian and Iras, Attendants on Cleopatra. Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants. SCENE. -- In several Parts of the Roman Empire. ACT I. Scene I. -- Alexandria. A Room in Cleopatra's Palace. Enter Demetrius and Philo. Phi. 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, reneags l all temper, And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's flame. Flourish within.'] Look where tl ey come: Take but good note, and you shall see in him The triple 2 pillar of the w...