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Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare’s best known later tragedies. The most geographically sweeping of the Bard’s plays, its setting is the entire Roman Empire, and its backdrop, the well-documented history of Octavius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra. Drawing upon the ancient Roman historian Plutarch’s Lives, the play portrays actual events and persons from Roman history, and also embodies the legendary love story of its title characters. In ...