1. Antony and Cleopatra
The Battle of the Sexes

2. Variety and subtlety in the art of persuasion
Look…see this Herculean Roman does become the carriage of his chafe
Riotous madness, to be entangled with those mouth-made vows
If you find him sad say I am dancing: if in mirth say I am sudden sick
O, never was there queen so mightily betrayed
I am quickly ill, and well. So Antony loves
I shall fall. It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature will not sustain it.
I have no power upon you; hers you are.
Now I see, I see in Fulvia’s death, how mine received shall be
Good now, play one scene of excellent dissembling and let it look like perfect honour
Thou the greatest soldier of the world art turned the greatest liar

3. What do these mean? Mouth-made vows
None our parts so poor but was a race of heaven
Eternity was in our lips and eyes
Though age from folly could not give me freedom
Italy shines o’er with civil swords
Equality of two domestic powers breeds scrupulous faction
The garboils she awaked

4. Rome’s view of Antony The abstract of all faults that men follow
His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, more fiery by night’s blackness
His faults…hereditary rather than purchased
Our great competitor
Give a kingdom for a mirth
Reel the streets at noon
He fishes, he drinks, he wastes the lamps of night in revel
Is not more manlike than Cleopatra
Hardly gave audience, or vouchsafed to think he had partners
Pawn…experience to …present pleasure and so rebel to judgement

5. In Act 1 Scene 4…
Why is Antony’s behaviour so inappropriate at this time?
How has Pompey’s reputation changed and why?
What is happening at sea?
Who or what is like a reed in a stream?
What extremes did Antony endure when he was a soldier?
What evidence is there that Lepidus does not trust Caesar?

6. Cleopatra Antony Serpent Give me to drink mandragora My Antony Poison
A morsel for a monarch
He shall have every day a several greeting or I’ll unpeople Egypt
My salad days when I was green in judgement, cold in thought
How much unlike MA art thou
Happy horse to bear the weight of A
His speech sticks in my heart
For he would shine on those that make their looks by his
Brave Antony