*** Scanner’s Notes: What this is and isn’t. This was taken from a copy of Shakespeare’s first folio and it is as close as I can come in ASCII to the printed text. The elongated S’s have been changed to small s’s and the conjoined ae have been changed to ae. I have left the
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
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Pharsalia, [Civil War] by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
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Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard
Etext prepared by John Bickers, jbickers@ihug.co.nz Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.com and Emma Dudding, emma_302@hotmail.com Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard DEDICATION My dear Mother, I have for a long while hoped to be allowed to dedicate some book of mine to you, and now I bring you this work, because whatever its shortcomings, and whatever judgment may be
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
ACT I An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless
All For Love by John Dryden
Comments on the preparation of this e-text SQUARE BRACKETS: The square brackets, i.e. ” has been added to the stage directions. CHANGES TO THE TEXT: Character names have been expanded. For Example, CLEOPATRA was CLEO. Three words in the preface were written in Greek Characters. These have been transliterated into Roman characters, and are set