Tragedy in "Antony and Cleopatra".
Title: Tragedy in "Antony and Cleopatra".
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 3689 | Pages: 13 (approximately 235 words/page)
Tragedy in "Antony and Cleopatra".
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 3689 | Pages: 13 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Antony and Cleopatra" seems to have a special place in Shakespeare's works because it is at a crossroad between two types of play. It clearly belongs to what are generally called the 'Roman' plays, along with Coriolanus and Julius Caesar. But it is also considered a tragedy. The importance of history in the play cannot be denied, especially where it is compared to Shakespeare's 'great' tragedies such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. But one
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freedom of the characters, making their free will fail. In fact, we can conclude that the tragic in this play is for the most part of a 'Classical' type, since several features of it can be compared with classical Greek or French tragedies. In fact the tragic might be more prominent in this hybrid play (both historical play and tragedy) Antony and Cleopatra, than it is in some of Shakespeare's 'great tragedies' such as Othello.