Antony and Cleopatra

The plot is based on the relationship between Mark Antony and Cleopatra from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumviri and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is characterised by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.