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A 5 page paper analyzing the use of the techniques and structures of comedy in these two works. The paper notes that because Shakespeare wrote in the Elizabethan era and Dryden during the Restoration, their differing sensibilities cause them to write a play that was natural and charming on the one hand and formal and sophisticated on the other. No additional sources listed.
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never precisely the same. In this paper we will look at two versions of the story of the love affair between Cleopatra and Mark Antony -- William Shakespeare?s Antony and
Cleopatra and John Dryden?s All For Love -- and analyze the differences in tone, particularly with respect to the use of comedy. Antony and Cleopatra has never been considered one
of Shakespeare?s powerhouse tragedies -- Hamlet, Othello, Lear, and Macbeth hold that title -- but it certainly has much to be said for it. Shakespeare had already dealt shown us
Antony the politician in Julius Caesar, but it is a different Antony we see in the later play; in Antony and Cleopatra he is softer, weaker, and essentially torn between
his duty to the state and his affair with Cleopatra. The Mark Antony of Antony and Cleopatra is a more private vision, and thus we get to see the man
in his most candid and cozy moments. In Shakespeare?s more conventional tragedies, we see plenty of heroes in private moments, but never with this intimacy, gentleness, and charm. For this
reason, although Antony and Cleopatra is unquestionably a tragedy in that it deals with large themes and ends unhappily, it displays many of the features we have met before in
Shakespeare?s comedies. The structure of the play resembles that of a traditional comedy, with Rome and Egypt being similar to the court and the forest of As You Like It
and A Midsummer Night?s Dream, or to Venice and Belmont in The Merchant of Venice; they are not in any way intended to reflect the real places but are instead
fairy-tale, mythical locales. The subject of the play embodies another ancient comic tradition, that of the infatuated old man enthralled by a scheming young woman. Moreover, Shakespeare?s comedies often ended
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