Antony and Cleopatra | Themes
Upon learning of the death of his cohort and foe, Augustus Caesar says of Antony's demise:
The breaking of so great a thing should makeA politician by trade and heart, Caesar's words resound with Mark Antony's own funeral orations over the deaths of Julius Caesar and Brutus in the earlier Shakespearean tragedy Julius Caesar. But while Caesar is not to be...
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.
(V.i.14-18)
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