Antony and Cleopatra facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Antony and Cleopatra
The first page of Antony and Cleopatra, from the First Folio
Written by	William Shakespeare
Characters	Antony Octavius Caesar Cleopatra
Date of premiere	1606-1607
Place of premiere	London, England
Original language	English
Genre	Tragedy
Setting	Alexandria, Egypt Rome and Misenum, Italy

Antony and Cleopatra is a play by Shakespeare. It is a tragedy. Shakespeare's source was Plutarch's Lives. The play was first performed between 1606 and 1607. It was probably first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The play describes the romantic love of Antony and Cleopatra.

Images for kids

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  Cleopatra: "Sooth, la, I'll help: Thus it must be." Antony and Cleopatra 4.4/11 (Edwin Austin Abbey, 1909)

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  Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse (1888)

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  In this Baroque vision, Battle of Actium by Laureys a Castro (1672), Cleopatra flees, lower left, in a barge with a figurehead of Fortuna.

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  Cleopatra and the Peasant, Eugène Delacroix (1838)

See also

In Spanish: Antonio y Cleopatra para niños