A05 Critical Quotes

Question 1

Cleopatra’s Dominance

Answer 1

Simpson
‘The play, in fact, might have been called Cleopatra’

Question 2

Cleopatra’s power over Antony

Answer 2

Williamson
‘The Captain’s captain is Cleopatra’

Question 3

Importance of Cleopatra’s suicide

Answer 3

Mills
‘Does she kill herself to be with Antony or to escape Caesar? It is the final question.’

Question 4

Cleopatra’s Changeability

Answer 4

Huges-Hallet
‘Cleopatra is consistent only in her inconsistency’

Question 5

Romans

Answer 5

Williamson
‘drunken, divided and careless as Antony’

Question 6

Antony Around Cleopatra

Answer 6

Robin Cameron
‘Antony follows her like a lovesick schoolboy’

Question 7

Cleopatra’s Death

Answer 7

‘Turns life into art… a death that lives in the artistic imagination’

Question 8

Enobarbus and Plutarch

Answer 8

John Wilders
‘Shakespeare created Enobarbus, who has much of Plutarch’s open mindedness and detachment’

Question 9

Enobarbus

Answer 9

Ronnie Bai
‘Never without truth behind his words’