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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.*

VOL. XVII.

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* ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.] 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 probably 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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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, Mardian, Seleucus, and Diomedes; Attend-
ants on Cleopatra.
A Soothsayer. A Clown.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.

Octavia, Sister to Cæsar, and Wife to Antony.

Charmian,

Iras,

Attendants on Cleopatra.

Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.

SCENE, dispersed; in several Parts of the Roman

Empire.

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