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"The Triple Pillar of the World Transformed into a Strumpet's Fool." Is this an accurate view of Antony?
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"The Triple Pillar of the World Transformed into a Strumpet's Fool." Is this an accurate view of Antony? Shakespeare's chief source for Antony and Cleopatra was Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes translated by Thomas North (1579). Plutarch largely portrayed Mark Antony as a vain and dissolute character, juxtaposed against the heroism and virtues of his compatriots. Shakespeare plays down these attributes for more dramatic effect, choosing to make Antony a more complex, three-dimensional, and ultimately flawed character. Antony could be said to be the object of focus throughout the whole play, as his time on stage is spent always in the middle, and while his presence is absent, he is constantly the subject of conversation. Through this we are able to make our own judgements of whether "Antony becomes his flow", or whether we agree with Cleopatra's description of him as a "Herculean Roman". Cleopatra humiliates Antony in front of...
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