1. Is Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy or a historical play?
... 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. He wrote his play mostly based upon some historical ... facts, which helps forming the genre of the play. On the other hand, we can say that this suggests also a problem about identifying the ... of ten years while it is somewhat summarized to be easily performed on the stage. Antony is now much older than he was in the period of Julius Caesar and ...
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