Shakespeare's Tragedies

Anthony and Cleopatra III - The Art of Dying (1x20)

Air date: Jan 01, 2007

We continue our discussion of the staging of identity in Antony and Cleopatra, focusing on the protagonists' highly performative suicides, the ironies that complicate Antony's bungled attempt to die a stoic Roman death, and Cleopatra's resurrection of the "heroic Antony" in her eulogy for her lover.