Scenes
(42 total)

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Act I

• Scene 1. Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA’s palace.
• Scene 2. The same. Another room.
• Scene 3. The same. Another room.
• Scene 4. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s house.
• Scene 5. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA’s palace.

Act II

• Scene 1. Messina. POMPEY’s house.
• Scene 2. Rome. The house of LEPIDUS.
• Scene 3. The same. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s house.
• Scene 4. The same. A street.
• Scene 5. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA’s palace.
• Scene 6. Near Misenum.
• Scene 7. On board POMPEY’s galley, off Misenum.

Act III

• Scene 1. A plain in Syria.
• Scene 2. Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s house.
• Scene 3. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA’s palace.
• Scene 4. Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY’s house.
• Scene 5. The same. Another room.
• Scene 6. Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s house.
• Scene 7. Near Actium. MARK ANTONY’s camp.
• Scene 8. A plain near Actium.
• Scene 9. Another part of the plain.
• Scene 10. Another part of the plain.
• Scene 11. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA’s palace.
• Scene 12. Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s camp.
• Scene 13. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA’s palace.

Act IV

• Scene 1. Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s camp.
• Scene 2. Alexandria. CLEOPATRA’s palace.
• Scene 3. The same. Before the palace.
• Scene 4. The same. A room in the palace.
• Scene 5. Alexandria. MARK ANTONY’s camp.
• Scene 6. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s camp.
• Scene 7. Field of battle between the camps.
• Scene 8. Under the walls of Alexandria.
• Scene 9. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s camp.
• Scene 10. Between the two camps.
• Scene 11. Another part of the same.
• Scene 12. Another part of the same.
• Scene 13. Alexandria. Cleopatra’s palace.
• Scene 14. The same. Another room.
• Scene 15. The same. A monument.

Act V

• Scene 1. Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR’s camp.
• Scene 2. Alexandria. A room in the monument.

Characters
(57 total)

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• Agrippa, friend to Caesar
• Alexas, attendant on Cleopatra
• All
• Antony, (Marcus Antonius)
• Attendant
• Attendants
• Canidius, lieutenant-general to Antony
• Captain
• Charmian, attendant on Cleopatra
• Cleopatra, queen of Egypt
• Clown
• Demetrius, friend to Antony
• Dercetas, friend to Antony
• Diomedes, attendant on Cleopatra
• Dolabella, friend to Caesar
• Domitius Enobarus, friend to Antony
• Egyptian
• Eros, friend to Antony
• Euphronius, an ambassador from Antony to Caesar
• First Attendant
• First Guard
• First Officer
• First Servant
• First Soldier
• Fourth Soldier
• Gallus, friend to Caesar
• Guard
• Iras, attendant on Cleopatra
• Lepidus, (Marcus Antonius Lepidus)
• Mardian, a eunuch, attendant on Cleopatra
• Mecaenas, friend to Caesar
• Menas, friend to Caesar
• Menecrates, friend to Pompey
• Messenger
• Octavia, sister to Caesar and wife to Antony
• Octavius, (Octavius Caesar)
• Philo, friend to Antony
• Pompey, (Sextus Pompeius)
• Proculeius, friend to Caesar
• Scarus, friend to Antony
• Second Attendant
• Second Guard
• Second Messenger
• Second Officer
• Second Servant
• Second Soldier
• Seleucus, attendant on Cleopatra
• Silius, an officer in Ventidius's army
• Soldier
• Soothsayer
• Taurus, lieutenant-general to Caesar
• Third Guard
• Third Officer
• Third Soldier
• Thyreus, friend to Caesar
• Varrius, friend to Pompey
• Ventidius, friend to Antony