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
SCENE VIII. Under the walls of Alexandria.
Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS, with others
SCENE IX. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. Sentinels at their post
SCENE X. Between the two camps.
Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army
SCENE XI. Another part of the same.
Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and his Army
SCENE XII. Another part of the same.
Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS
SCENE XIII. Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.
Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN
SCENE XIV. The same. Another room.
Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS
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SCENE XV. The same. A monument.
Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with CHARMIAN and IRAS
ACT V
SCENE I. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.
Enter CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, war council
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield;
Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks
The pauses that he makes.
DOLABELLA
Caesar, I shall.
Exit
Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest
Appear thus to us?
DERCETAS
I am call'd Dercetas;
Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy
Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke,
He was my master; and I wore my life
To spend upon his haters. If thou please
To take me to thee, as I was to him
I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,
I yield thee up my life.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
What is't thou say'st?
DERCETAS
I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony
Is not a single doom; in the name lay
A moiety of the world.
DERCETAS
He is dead, Caesar:
Not by a public minister of justice,
Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand,
Which writ his honour in the acts it did,
Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,
Splitted the heart. This is his sword;
I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd
With his most noble blood.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Look you sad, friends?
The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings
To wash the eyes of kings.
AGRIPPA
And strange it is,
That nature must compel us to lament
Our most persisted deeds.
MECAENAS
His taints and honours
Waged equal with him.
AGRIPPA
A rarer spirit never
Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us
Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch'd.
MECAENAS
When such a spacious mirror's set before him,
He needs must see himself.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
O Antony!
I have follow'd thee to this; but we do lance
Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce
Have shown to thee such a declining day,
Or look on thine; we could not stall together
In the whole world: but yet let me lament,
With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,
That thou, my brother, my competitor
In top of all design, my mate in empire,
Friend and companion in the front of war,
The arm of mine own body, and the heart
Where mine his thoughts did kindle,--that our stars,
Unreconciliable, should divide
Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends--
But I will tell you at some meeter season:
Enter an Egyptian
The business of this man looks out of him;
We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you?
Egyptian
A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress,
Confined in all she has, her monument,
Of thy intents desires instruction,
That she preparedly may frame herself
To the way she's forced to.
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Bid her have good heart:
She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,
How honourable and how kindly we
Determine for her; for Caesar cannot live
To be ungentle.
Egyptian
So the gods preserve thee!
Exit
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say,
We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts
The quality of her passion shall require,
Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke
She do defeat us; for her life in Rome
Would be eternal in our triumph: go,
And with your speediest bring us what she says,
And how you find of her.
PROCULEIUS
Caesar, I shall.
Exit
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Gallus, go you along.
Exit GALLUS
Where's Dolabella,
To second Proculeius?
All
Dolabella!
OCTAVIUS CAESAR
Let him alone, for I remember now
How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready.
Go with me to my tent; where you shall see
How hardly I was drawn into this war;
How calm and gentle I proceeded still
In all my writings: go with me, and see
What I can show in this.
Exeunt
SCENE II. Alexandria. A room in the monument.
Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS >>>>>
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