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This A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra study guide also includes:
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Was Antony "transformed/Into a strumpet's fool," as Philo declares? (I, i) Was Cleopatra "green in judgment"? (I,5) A guide to Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's tragedy, provides instructors with a framework for teaching the play about "a pair so famous" that their love destroyed not only a Roman leader and a queen, but also an empire.
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Instructional Ideas
- To help readers visualize the action, have class members create, label, and post a map that shows North Africa, Egypt, Alexandra, Rome, and the eastern Mediterranean
Classroom Considerations
- The play begins after Antony has already fallen under Cleopatra's spell; to establish a context for his fixation, consider showing the scene from the Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 film Cleopatra of the Queen's entrance into Rome (available on YouTube)
Pros
- Includes the historical background, a synopsis, and discussion questions for each act of the play
- Provides before, during, and after reading activities
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