Antony and Cleopatra: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Antony and Cleopatra, credited to William Shakespeare, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Marcus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumviri and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Antony and Cleopatra
• Author credits: William Shakespeare
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 3:03:48

Catalogue topics

• drama
• tragedy
• Roman Empire

Track guide

1. 0 - Dramatis Personae — 4:19
2. 1 - Act 1 — 29:31
3. 2 - Act 2 — 42:14
4. 3 - Act 3 — 44:16
5. 4 - Act 4 — 37:50
6. 5 - Act 5 — 25:40

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