Antony and Cleopatra (1921) Yale

by William Shakespeare

For other versions of this work, see Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare).

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THE TRAGEDY OF
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

 

EDITED BY
HENRY SEIDEL CANBY

 

 

NEW HAVEN • YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON • HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • MCMXXI

 

Copyright, 1921
By Yale University Press

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First published, 1921

 

 

CONTENTS
	PAGE
The Text	1
⁠Act I	1
⁠Act II	22
⁠Act III	54
⁠Act IV	87
⁠Act V	114
Notes	133
Appendix A. The Source of the Play	143
Appendix B. The History of the Play	145
Appendix C. The Text	148
Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading	150
Index of Words Glossed	151

 

The facsimile opposite represents the opening of 'The Life of Marcus Antonius' from the 1595 edition of Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch. This edition is probably that used by Shakespeare.

 

THE YALE SHAKESPEARE

 

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Edited by

Wilbur L. Cross⁠Tucker Brooke

Willard Higley Durham

 

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Published under the Direction

of the

Department of English, Yale University,

on the Fund

Given to the Yale University Press in 1917

by the Members of the

Kingsley Trust Association

To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary

of the Founding of the Society