WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S PLAY - ANTHONY AND CLEOPATRA - FULL TEXT

ACT I

SCENE I. Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace.
SCENE II. The same. Another room. Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer

SCENE III. The same. 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 MARK ANTONY, CAESAR, OCTAVIA between them, and Attendants

SCENE IV.  Lepidus sets off to do battle with Pompey. Urging Maecenas and Agrippa hasten departures of Antony and Caesar.
SCENE V. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.  Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS

SCENE VI. Near Misenum. Enter Pompey, Menas  drum/trumpet Caesar, Antony, Lepidus, Enobarbus, Mecaenas, Soldiers

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 in triumph, with SILIUS, Romans, Officers, Soldiers; the body of PACORUS before him
SCENE II. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house. Enter AGRIPPA one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS 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; and TAURUS, lieutenant CAESAR, heard the 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, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS

ACT IV

SCENE I. Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. Enter Caesar, Agrippa, Mecaenas, with Army; Caesar reading a letter
SCENE II. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.  Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others

SCENE III. The same. Before the palace.  Enter two Soldiers to their guard

SCENE IV. The same. A room in the palace. Enter MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and others attending

SCENE V. Alexandria. MARK ANTONY's camp. Trumpets sound. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS; a Soldier meeting them
SCENE VI. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with DOMITIUS 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
SCENE XV. The same. A monument. Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with CHARMIAN and IRAS

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.  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.

ACT V

SCENE I. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp. Enter Octavius, Agrippa, Dolabella, Maceanas, Gallus, Proculeius, council of war
SCENE II. Alexandria. A room in the monument. Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS Queen's suicide by poison asps

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S: ANTONIUS AND CLEOPATRA - FIRST PERFORMED AT THE GLOBE THEATRE IN 1607 - A TRAGEDY - SUICIDE OF THE PHARAOH QUEEN OF EGYPT BY POISON ASP

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