The Roman general Antony's infatuation with Egypt's queen pulls him from duty and Octavius Caesar's favor, ending in war, defeat, and the lovers' shared suicide.
Books that mention Antony and Cleopatra (11)
Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: “It is not the fault of their authors that the long string of wanton's tragedies, from Antony and Cleopatra to Iris, are snares to poor girls, and are objected to on that account by many earnest men and women who consider Mrs Warren's Profession an excellent sermon.”
The Tragic Muse by Henry James: “I'm afraid they don't want _King John_, and I don't believe they hunger for _Antony and Cleopatra_," Basil Dashwood suggested.”
Ulysses by James Joyce: “the writer of Antony and Cleopatra, a passionate pilgrim”
Prester John by John Buchan: ““Unarm, Eros,” he cried.”
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “an Antony and Cleopatra starring television actors at a theater in downtown Los Angeles”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “Not surprisingly, in wartime, he plucked timely quotes from the Roman and history plays, including Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Henry V.”
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf: “What was Shakespeare's state of mind, for instance, when he wrote LEAR and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA?”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: Discussed via Cleopatra's imagining of her fate before her suicide in the last act
The Last Supper by Rachel Cusk: “'I read them ... Antony's love-speeches'; 'the plot of Othello, of Antony and Cleopatra'”
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot: “77. Cf. Antony and Cleopatra, II. ii., l. 190.”
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace: “Diomedes. His death's upon him, but not dead." Antony and Cleopatra (act iv., sc. xiii.).”