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
SCENE V. The same. Another room. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
How now, friend Eros!
EROS
There's strange news come, sir.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
What, man?
EROS
Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
This is old: what is the success?
EROS
Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst
Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let
him partake in the glory of the action: and not
resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly
wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: so
the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more;
And throw between them all the food thou hast,
They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?
EROS
He's walking in the garden--thus; and spurns
The rush that lies before him; cries, 'Fool Lepidus!'
And threats the throat of that his officer
That murder'd Pompey.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
Our great navy's rigg'd.
EROS
For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius;
My lord desires you presently: my news
I might have told hereafter.
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS
'Twill be naught:
But let it be. Bring me to Antony.
EROS
Come, sir.
Exeunt
SCENE VI. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS
CLONED
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world she's been reborn into, against antagonists various, including the
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