How you explore Antony and Cleopatra on Literah
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- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 25 characters, 18 places, 14 objects and 5 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 42 passages of Antony and Cleopatra sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as William Shakespeare wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on William Shakespeare instead.
The Antony and Cleopatra feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of Antony and Cleopatra
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Egypt holds Antony while Rome calls
- A peace too thin to hold
- Actium breaks his command
- Desertion and a hollow victory
- Two deaths and Caesar’s reckoning
The author's pen in Antony and Cleopatra
The passages themselves, William Shakespeare's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Antony's Dotagech. 1
- Let Rome In Tyber Meltch. 1
- The Hand That Would Pull Her Backch. 1
- Cleopatra Calls Antony Falsech. 1
- Caesar Chides Antonych. 1
- Cleopatra Thinks of Antonych. 1
- Every Day a Seuerall Greetingch. 1
- Antony Every Hour In Romech. 1
- Trivial Difference Loudch. 1
- Cleopatra on the Cydnusch. 1
- Antony Will To Egyptch. 1
- Octauia To His Wifech. 2
- She Makes Hungrych. 2
- But Yet Is a Jaylorch. 2
- He Is Marriedch. 2
- The Marriage Stranglerch. 2
- Wilt Thou Be Lordch. 2
- Mine Honour And Villaniech. 2
- No Midway Twixt These Extreamesch. 2
- Antony In The Public Eyech. 2
The characters of Antony and Cleopatra
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Antonymajor
- Cleopatramajor
- Octavius Caesarmajor
- Enobarbusmajor
- Pompeysupporting
- Octaviasupporting
- Lepidussupporting
- Fuluiamentioned
- Julius Caesarmentioned
- Charmiansupporting
- Alexasminor
- Agrippasupporting
- Soothsayersupporting
- Menassupporting
- Irasminor
- Messengersupporting
The locations in Antony and Cleopatra
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Egyptsetting
- Romesetting
- Alexandriasetting
- Tybersetting
- Scicionsetting
- the Port of Romesetting
- Mount-Mesenasetting
- the Riuer of Sidnissetting
- th' Market-placesetting
- Parthiasetting
- Pompey's galleysetting
- Athenssetting
- the Seasetting
- the gardensetting
The core concepts in Antony and Cleopatra
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Love against office
- Spectacle as power
- Prediction and self-blinding
- Loyalty under strain
- The contest over shame
- Feasting beside violence
- Rome against Egypt
The objects of note in Antony and Cleopatra
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Letter
- Orient Pearle
- Inke and paper
- Mandragora
- The Barge
- diuers coulour'd Fannes
- Sword
- The bended hooke
- his Sword Phillippan
- Gold
- A knife
- Our written purposes
- The Cable
- This Cup
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