Thonis-Heracleion was
Egypt’s greatest port for much of the first millennium B.C. before
Alexander the Great established Alexandria in 331 B.C. Then it vanished beneath
the sea in 365 A.D. hiding
the
location of Queen Cleopatra's tomb - a long
lost mystery - until now.
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE'S
PLAY - ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA - FULL TEXT
ACT I
SCENE I. Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace.
SCENE II. Alexandria, Cleopatra's Palace. Another room. Enter
CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer
SCENE III. Alexandria, Cleopatra's Palace. Another room.
Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS
SCENE IV. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS, and their Train
SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's
palace. Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN
ACT II
SCENE I. Messina. POMPEY's house. Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in warlike manner
SCENE II. Rome. The house of LEPIDUS. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS
SCENE III. The same. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.
Enter ANTONY, OCTAVIUS , OCTAVIA, and Attendants
SCENE IV. The same. A street.
Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA
SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS
SCENE VI. Near Misenum.
Pompey Menas at one door, Caesar, Anotony, Lepidus, Enobarbus,
Mecaenas
SCENE VII. On board POMPEY's galley, off Misenum. Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquet
ACT III
SCENE I. A plain in Syria.
Enter VENTIDIUS with SILIUS, other
Romans, Officers, Soldiers; body of PACORUS
SCENE
II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. AGRIPPA at one door,
ENOBARBUS at another
<<<<< SCENE III. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.
Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS
SCENE IV. Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY's house. Enter MARK ANTONY and OCTAVIA
MARK ANTONY
Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,--
That were excusable, that, and thousands more
Of semblable import,--but he hath waged
New wars 'gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it
To public ear:
Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not
But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly
He vented them; most narrow measure lent me:
When the best hint was given him, he not took't,
Or did it from his teeth.
OCTAVIA
O my good lord,
Believe not all; or, if you must believe,
Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,
If this division chance, ne'er stood between,
Praying for both parts:
The good gods me presently,
When I shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband!'
Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,
'O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother,
Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway
'Twixt these extremes at all.
MARK ANTONY
Gentle Octavia,
Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks
Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour,
I lose myself: better I were not yours
Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,
Yourself shall go between 's: the mean time, lady,
I'll raise the preparation of a war
Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste;
So your desires are yours.
OCTAVIA
Thanks to my lord.
The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,
Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be
As if the world should cleave, and that slain men
Should solder up the rift.
MARK ANTONY
When it appears to you where this begins,
Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults
Can never be so equal, that your love
Can equally move with them. Provide your going;
Choose your own company, and command what cost
Your heart has mind to.
Exeunt
SCENE V. The same. Another room. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting
>>>>>
CLONED
REPLICANT - Using the latest technology in computer genome mapping and
digital DNA splicing, a brotherhood of progressive scientists reincarnate Cleopatra
VII, who died in 30BC, having located and plundered her sarcophagus from
its watery grave. The resurrected Pharaoh has to mesh with the modern
world she's been reborn into, against antagonists various, including the
CIA and Vatican.
    
    
  
   
    
    
   
  
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