1. Antony and Cleopatra and its accessibility to an audience
... immortal longings in me, as she says near her death in Act 5, scene 2. Just as Shakespeare depicts Cleopatra's superhuman aspects through Enobarbus, Caesar is used to display Antony's superhuman soldiery. Both are described positively by those technically "against them." Caesar depicts Anthony not only as a soldier but a great hero. He is famed more powerful than beasts or savages, having "patience more than ... , an addition to his source, North's translation of "Plutarch." Antony, after listening to his advice, reveals in his monologue that "he hath spoken true. The very dice obey him ...
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