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
SCENE VI. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.  Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS

SCENE VII. Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp.  Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS

SCENE VIII. A plain near Actium. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and TAURUS, with his army, marching

SCENE IX. Another part of the plain. Enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS

SCENE X. Another part of the plain. CANIDIUS marcheth army and TAURUS, lieutenant CAESAR. Noise of a sea-fight.

SCENE XI. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. Enter MARK ANTONY with Attendants

SCENE XII. Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, with others

SCENE XIII. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. Enter CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS

ACT IV

SCENE I. Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. Enter CAESAR, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS, Army; CAESAR reading

SCENE II. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS
SCENE III. The same. Before the palace. Enter two Soldiers to their guard
SCENE IV. The same. A room in the palace. Enter ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, others attending 

SCENE V. Alexandria. MARK ANTONY's camp. Trumpets. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS; Soldier meeting

<<<<< SCENE VI. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS, AGRIPPA, with ENOBARBUS, and others

SCENE VII. Field of battle between the camps. Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA and others

AGRIPPA

Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:
Caesar himself has work, and our oppression
Exceeds what we expected.

Exeunt

Alarums. Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS wounded

SCARUS

O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!
Had we done so at first, we had droven them home
With clouts about their heads.

MARK ANTONY

Thou bleed'st apace.

SCARUS

I had a wound here that was like a T,
But now 'tis made an H.

MARK ANTONY

They do retire.

SCARUS

We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet
Room for six scotches more.

Enter EROS

EROS

They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves
For a fair victory.

SCARUS

Let us score their backs,
And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind:
'Tis sport to maul a runner.

MARK ANTONY

I will reward thee
Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold
For thy good valour. Come thee on.

SCARUS

I'll halt after.

Exeunt

SCENE VIII. Under the walls of Alexandria. Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS, with others >>>>>

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.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

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