What is Antony and Cleopatra?
{{Infobox play | name = Antony and Cleopatra | image = First Folio, Shakespeare - 0847.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = The first page of ''Antony and Cleopatra'', from the [[First Folio]] | writer = [[William Shakespeare]] | sources = [[Plutarch]]'s ''Lives'' | characters = Antony<br />Octavius Caesar<br />Cleopatra | setting = Alexandria, Egypt<br />Rome and Misenum, Italy | premiere = 1606-1607 | place = [[London, England]] | orig_lang = English | subject = | genre = [[Tragedy]] }} '''''Antony and Cleopatra''''' is a [[Play (theatre)|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]] and [[suicide]]s of [[Mark Antony|Antony]] and [[Cleopatra]]. ==References== * [http://www.william-shakespeare.info/shakespeare-play-antony-and-cleopatra.htm Antony and Cleopatra] {{wikiquote-en}} {{William Shakespeare|state=collapsed}} [[Category:Plays by William Shakespeare]] [[Category:1600s plays]] {{lit-stub}}