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Description: A critical analysis of the play.
This document was originally published in Characters of Shakespeare's Plays . William Hazlitt. London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. pp. 58-63. HIS is a very noble play. Though not in the first class of Shakespeare's production, it stands next to them, and is perhaps the finest of his historical plays, that is, those in which he made poetry the organ of history, and assumed a certain tone of character and sentiment, in conformity to known facts, instead of trusting to his observations of general nature or to the unlimited indulgence of his own fancy. What he has added to the actual story, is upon a par with it. His genius was, as it were, a match for history as well as nature, and could grapple at will with either. The play is full of that pervading comprehensive power by which the poet could always make himself master of time and circumstances. It presents a fine picture of Roman pride and Eastern magnificence: and in the struggle between the two, the empire of the world seems suspended, "like the swan's downfeather,
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| Page title: | Antony and Cleopatra |
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| Description: | A critical analysis of William Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra.' |
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