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This 3 page paper explicates a passage from Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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explicates a passage from Shakespeares play Antony and Cleopatra and relates it to the immediate situation, to the play as a whole, and to the woman who inspired it. Discussion
The passage under discussion is in Act II, Scene ii, and it takes place in Rome. Antonys wife Fulvia has died, and Agrippa proposes that Antony should marry Caesars sister
Octavia, which would put to rest all the fears and jealousies that have arisen between the two men (Shakespeare). Antony agrees, as does Caesar; then everyone leaves but Enobarbus, Agrippa
and Maecenas, all friends of Antony. Enobarbus has just returned to Rome from Egypt, so he is the one who can supply information about what its like and more importantly,
what its queen is like. Shakespeare has given Enobarbus some of the most beautiful language in the play, as when he describes Cleopatras barge: "The barge she sat in, like
a burnishd throne, /Burnt on the water. The poop was beaten gold, / Purple the sails ... the oars were silver" and Cleopatra herself was more beautiful than Venus, the
Roman goddess of love and beauty (II.ii.191-194). Agrippa exclaims "O, rare for Antony!" (II.ii.205) meaning that Antony is lucky to be the lover of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description
of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invites to supper where he falls in love with her. Agrippa calls her a "Royal wench!"
and notes that she seduced Caesar and had a son by him (Shakespeare). But Enobarbus isnt willing to denigrate her; instead he praises her beauty in the passage we need
to examine closely. He says "I saw her once / Hop forty paces through the public street; / And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted, / That she
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