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How are Rome and Egypt presented in Shakespere's "Antony and Cleopatra"
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HOW ARE ROME AND EGYPT PRESENTED WITHIN THE PLAY? The play is set in the decade between 40 and 30 B.C., when Rome is securing its hold on the entire known world. What is at stake, the play reminds us over and over, is not just Rome, and not just the Roman Empire, but the world itself. Antony and Cleopatra details the conflict between Rome and Egypt, giving us an ides of the Elizabethan perceptions of the difference between Western and Eastern cultures, it does not however, make a conclusive statement about which culture ultimately triumphs. In the play, the Western and Eastern poles of the world are characterised by those who inhabit them: Caesar, for example, expresses the emotionless duty of the West, while Cleopatra, in all her theatrical grandeur, represents the free-flowing emotions of the East. Caesar's concerns throughout the play are imperial: he means to invade foreign lands in...
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