Antony And Cleopatra (Antony And Cleopatra)

Antony and Cleopatra, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 166-7 and published in the first Folio of 1623 from an authorial draft in a more finished state than most of his working papers or possibly from a transcript of those papers not yet prepared as a playbook. It is considered one of Shakespeare's richest and most moving works. The principal source of the play was Sir Thomas North's Parallel Lives (1579), an English version of Plutarch's Bioi parallēloi. The story concerns Mark Antony, Roman military leader and triumvir, who is besottedly in love with Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and former mistress of Pompey and Julius Caesar.