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How successfully does Shakespeare divide our affections between the political world of Rome and the mythical world of the Egyptian Venus?
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How successfully does Shakespeare divide our affections between the political world of Rome and the mythical world of the Egyptian Venus? One of the major themes of Anthony and Cleopatra is that of contrast. Different characters, the two sexes, and most vitally here, the two civilisations, Rome and Egypt, and their views and their views are compared to each other, and put in sharp contrast. Rome was, at the time in which the play is set, the towering world power that we remember it as today. From its capital in Rome, its power was enforced all over its gargantuan empire, which it had won with its innovative military techniques, and powerful form of governmental control. It 'Romanised' the lands it took over, installing the amenities that all Romans enjoyed in Italy, and gradually winning the populace round. In Anthony and Cleopatra, the chief Roman protagonists are its two most important leaders,...
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