- Find out what was meant by “mutabilitie” in Shakespeare’s time.
- Examine the way in which Cleopatra stage-manages her own death.
- Compare your response to Antony’s death with your response to Cleopatra’s.
- “This is not a play dominated by the classic Aritotelian tragic emotions of pity and terror. Even the death scenes are more surprising and impressive than pitiful and terrible.” (Arnold Kettle in Kiernan Ryan, 2000, Op.Cit., p.126)
To what extent can we define Antony and Cleopatra’s deaths as tragic?
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