The tragic in Antony and Cleopatra Essays -- Shakespeare Tragedy Plays

The sad in Antony and CleopatraHis captains heart,Which in the scuffles of with child(p) fights hath burstThe buckles on his breast, reneges all temper And is become the bellows and the strike outTo cool a gipsys lust.Antony and Cleopatra seems to have a special place in Shakespe ares works because it is at a crossroad between two types of play. It clear belongs to what are generally called the Roman plays, along with Coriolanus and Julius Caesar. But it is also considered a tragedy. The vastness of history in the play cannot be denied, especially where it is compared to Shakespeares great tragedies such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. But one might wonder what is specifically tragic in Antony and Cleopatra, and what can be said about the tragic in a play which is so different from the other tragedies. It is clear that the caprice of tragic in the everyday sense is not necessarily the same as the notion of tragedy, which is a philosophicalal notion whose definition depends on which philosophic system one takes into account. In this article I shall take the bourn tragic in its literary and dramatic sense and try to desexualise its main calibreistics.Taking into account a wide corpus of plays, from antiquity as well as from France and England, we can detect several continual features that can define the tragic. A tragedy usually shows a character that is outstanding by his rank or/and inner abilities, falling into mishap as a result of fate, and because of an error or a flunk for which he is not really responsible. Several tragic elements can be detected in Antony and Cleopatra. First, we find characters that have high rank because they are outstanding figures we also see a tragic situation because from the be... ...es. In fact the tragic might be more prominent in this hybrid play (both historical play and tragedy) Antony and Cleopatra, than it is in some of Shakespeares great tragedies such as Othello. BibliographyAngel-Perez, Elisabeth. 1997. Le thtre Anglais. Paris HachetteAnouilh, Jean. 1946. Antigone, Paris Editions de la put back RondeBiet, Christian. 1997. La tragdie. Paris Armand ColinCuddon, J. A . 1992. The Penguin Dictionary Of literary Terms And Literary Theory. Penguin USA Racine, Jean. 1674. Pr face up of Iphignie en Aulide. Editions lIntgrale 1667. Premire Prface of Andromaque. Editions lIntgrale1677. Prface of Phdre. Editions lIntgraleSuhamy, Henri (directed by). 2000. Antony and Cleopatra. Paris Ellipses 1. Article published in Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Henri Suhamy The tragic in Antony and Cleopatra