‘Experience, manhood, honour, ne’er did violate so itself’

• Antony’s failure to fit the traditional male stereotype as a major downfall, also his choice of Egypt over Rome seen as a betrayal

‘put my tires and mantles on him’

• Cleopatra’s dominance in their relationship

‘let’s do’t after the high roman fashion and make death proud to take us'

• The perceived honour of suicide in a society where political murder is rife

‘Antony’s hath triumphed on itself’

• As above, control of manner of death is viewed as victory

‘this dotage of our general’s o’erflows the measure’

• Excessive nature of Antony’s affection for Cleopatra as a major reason in desertion by followers and overall failure

‘let Rome in Tiber melt’

• Demonstrative of the excessive nature of Antony’s love for Cleopatra

‘I wore his sword Philippan’

• Cleopatra as a female leader and yet stereotypically male

‘My most beloved sister, he hath given his empire up to a whore’

• Familial relationship between Caesar and Octavia; views of Antony’s loyalty to Egypt; racist and misogynistic perceptions of Cleopatra and powerful women

‘i have immortal longings in me’

• Cleopatra’s control of her own death, recognition that it would be preferable to humiliation of death at the hands of Rome

‘he ploughed and she cropped’

• Relationship between Cleopatra and Caesar, mild hints of sexism as Cleopatra’s sexuality is focused on but also used for mild comedic relief by Enobarbus

‘the most infectious pestilence upon thee’

• Demonstrative of Cleopatra’s short temper and the role of messengers in ancient society, also used for comedic relief

‘would that we all had such wives, that the men might go to wars with the women’

• Enobarbus’s role as comedic relief, also Roman perceptions of the role of women contrasting with Egyptian

‘I am alone the villain of the earth’

• Small triumph for Egypt over Rome in Enobarbus’s regret, however melodrama could also be viewed as Shakespeare trying to insert a modicum of humour into an otherwise very serious/tragic climax of a play

‘I will seek some ditch wherin to die’

• Extent of Enobarbus’s grief over betrayal of Antony, also again arguably comedic melodrama. Also similiarities with LATER phrase ‘go die in a ditch’ - therefore not Shakespeare’s deliberate allusion but a modern interpretation picks up on this and thus perhaps sees comedy that was not intended or perceived by the original audience

‘O sovereign mistress of true melancholy’

• Enobarbus addressing the moon, signs of madness? Makes Enobarbus’s actual death increasingly tragic despite occasional mild humor as above

‘I still see some diminution in our captain’s brain’

‘I will seek some way to leave him’

‘he calls me boy’

‘a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow’

‘the third o’th’world is yours’

‘in all my writings… see what i can show in this’

‘the time of universal peace is near’

‘whose beauty and whose general graces tell’

‘a sister I bequeath you’

‘husband win, win brother … no midway twixt these extremes at all’

‘she shows a body rather than a life’

‘tawny front… gipsy’s lust’

‘tell him I have slain myself’

‘their story is no less in pity than his glory which brought them to be lamented’

‘ay, dread queen’

‘in me it would be villany’

‘who seeks and will not take once tis offered shall never find it more’

‘how? not dead? not dead?’

‘to do this I learned of thee’

‘I did not send you’

‘Sit, sir’

‘my auguring hope says it will come to the full’

‘whose fortunes shall rise higher?’ ‘Caesar’s’

‘took alive’