M. ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, M. AEMIL LEPIDUS – triumvirs
SEXTUS POMPEIUS
DOMITUS ENOBARBUS, VENTIDIUS, EROS, SCARUS, DERCETAS, DEMETRIUS, PHILO – friends to ANTONY
MECAENAS, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, PROCULEIUS, THYREUS, GALLUS – friends to CAESAR
MENAS, MENECRATES, VARRIUS – friends to POMPEY
TAURUS – lieutenant-general to CAESAR
CANIDIUS – lieutenant-general to ANTONY
SILIUS – an officer in VENTIDIUS’ army
EUPHRONIUS – an ambassador from ANTONY to CAESAR
ALEXAS, MARDIAN, SELEUCUS, DIOMEDES – attendants on CLEOPATRA
A soothsayer, a clown
CLEOPATRA – Queen of Egypt
OCTAVIA – Sister to CAESAR and wife to ANTONY
CHARMIAN, IRAS – attendants on CLEOPATRA
Officers, soldiers, messengers, and other attendants
PLAY
Dispersed; in several parts of the Roman Empire.
ACT I
Scene i: Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra’s palace.
Scene ii: Alexandria. Another room in Cleopatra’s palace.
Scene iii: Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra’s palace.
Scene iv: Rome. An apartment in Caesar’s house.
Scene v: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
ACT II
Scene i: Messina. A room in Pompey’s house.
Scene ii: Rome. A room in the house of Lepidus..
Scene iii: Rome. A room in Caesar’s house.
Scene iv: Rome. A street.
Scene v: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
Scene vi: Near Misenum.
Scene vii: On board Pompey’s galley, lying near Misenum.
ACT III
Scene i: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
Scene ii: Rome. An ante-chamber in Caesar’s house.
Scene iii: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
Scene iv: Athens. A room in Antony’s house.
Scene v: Athens. Another room in Antony’s house.
Scene vi: Rome. A room in Caesar’s house.
Scene vii: Antony’s camp near the Promentory of Actium.
Scene viii: A plain near Actium.
Scene ix: Another part of the plain.
Scene x: Another part of the plain.
Scene xi: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
Scene xii: Caesar’s camp in Egypt.
Scene xiii: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
ACT IV
Scene i: Caesar’s camp at Alexandria.
Scene ii: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
Scene iii: Alexandria. Before the palace.
Scene iv: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
Scene v: Antony’s camp near Alexandria.
Scene vi: Caesar’s camp before Alexandria.
Scene vii: Field of battle between the camps.
Scene viii: Under the walls of Alexandria.
Scene ix: Caesar’s camp.
Scene x: Ground between the two camps.
Scene xi: Another part of the ground.
Scene xii: Another part of the ground.
Scene xiii: Alexandria. A room in the palace.
Scene xiv: Alexandria. Another room.
Scene xv: Alexandria. A monument.
ACT V
Scene i: Caesar’s camp before Alexandria.
Scene ii: Alexandria. A room in the monument.
Act IV: Scene xii
ANTONY: O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:
Fortune and Antony part here; even here
Do we shake hands. – All come to this! – The hearts
That spaniel’d me at heels, to whom I gave
Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark’d
That overtopp’d them all. Betray’d I am:
O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,
Whose eye beck’d forth my wars and call’d them home;
Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,–
Like a right gypsy, hath at fast and loose,
Beguil’d me to the very heart of loss. —
