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James Boswell [1821], The plays and poems of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending A Life of the Poet, and an enlarged history of the stage, by the late Edmond Malone. With a new glossarial index (J. Deighton and Sons, Cambridge) [word count] [S10201].

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Introductory matter

PRELIMINARY REMARKS.

Among the entries in the books of the Stationers' Company, October 19, 1593, I find “A Booke entituled the Tragedie of Cleopatra.” It is entered by Symon Waterson, for whom some of Daniel's works were printed; and therefore it is probable by that author of whose Cleopatra there are several editions; and, among others, one in 1594.

In the same volumes, May 20, 1608, Edward Blount entered “A Booke called Anthony and Cleopatra.” This is the first notice I have met with concerning any edition of this play more ancient than the folio 1623. Steevens.

Antony and Cleopatra was written, I imagine, in the year 1608. See An Attempt to ascertain the Order of Shakspeare's Plays, vol. ii. Malone.

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PERSONS REPRESENTED. M. Antony [Mark Antony], Triumvir. Octavius Cæsar [Octavius Caesar], Triumvir. M. Æmil. Lepidus, Triumvir. Sextus Pompeius. Domitius Enobarbus, Friend of Antony. Ventidius, Friend of Antony. Eros, Friend of Antony. Scarus, Friend of Antony. Dercetas, Friend of Antony. Demetrius, Friend of Antony. Philo, Friend of Antony. Mecænas [Maecenas], Friend to Cæsar. Agrippa, Friend to Cæsar. Dolabella, Friend to Cæsar. Proculeius, Friend to Cæsar. Thyreus, Friend to Cæsar. Gallus, Friend to Cæsar. Menas, Friend of Pompey. Menecrates, Friend of Pompey. Varrius, Friend of Pompey. Taurus, Lieutenant-General to Cæsar. Canidius, Lieutenant-General to Antony. Silius, an Officer in Ventidius's Army. Euphronius, an Ambassador from Antony to Cæsar. Alexas, Attendant on Cleopatra. Mardian, Attendant on Cleopatra. Seleucus, Attendant on Cleopatra. Diomedes, Attendant on Cleopatra. A Soothsayer. A Clown. Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Octavia, Sister to Cæsar, and Wife to Antony. Charmian, Attendant on Cleopatra. Iras, Attendant on Cleopatra. Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants. [Messenger], [Messenger 2], [Attendant 1], [Attendant 2], [Attendant], [Servant 1], [Servant 2], [Servant], [Soldier], [Soldier 1], [Soldier 2], [Soldier 3], [Soldier 4], [Officer 1] [Officer 2], [Guard], [Guard 1], [Guard 2], [Guard 3] SCENE, dispersed; in several Parts of the Roman Empire.

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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.
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