ABSTRACT
What it is to be free or a slave, to live under liberty or under tyranny is a central concern for Shakespeare. This chapter concentrates most on these concerns in Antony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare represents many sides of the question, a clash or conflict of characters and ideas, in dramatic fashion as well as the theatre of politics and the politics of the theatre. Antony and Cleopatra continues the story and represents the private world of love and lust more than Julius Caesar did. The Stoic champion of liberty, Brutus in Julius Caesar, gives way to the Epicurean Antony in this play.
