Antony and Cleopatra (Reading)

In this classic Jacobean tragedy of love and duty, Mark Antony is fresh from victory in battle over the assassins of Julius Caesar and now rules the Roman Empire in triumvirate with Octavius Caesar and Lepidus. While in Alexandria, Antony scandalizes Egypt and Rome alike through his passionate affair with Cleopatra, the Egyptian Queen, setting off a chain of broken alliances, jealous rages and civil war that reverberate through the known world in one of Shakespeare’s greatest historical love stories.