ceciliacb 's review for:

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

3.0

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So I started out really impressed with this, but it just kinda went downhill. The ending was very meh, not as dramatic as I had expected. I knew the story from some other stuff I've read, so maybe that was part of it? I just didn't understand a lot of what was going on. There seemed to be a lot of scenes that just kind of went over my head for some reason. I also didn't understand Cleopatra's motivations I guess? She seemed very fickle, which might have been the point, but I couldn't figure out if she was really stupid or really clever and just pretending to be stupid to manipulate people. It was confusing. I'd like to watch this performed, because that cleared up a lot of my issues with Macbeth, so maybe this will do the same. We'll see.
To summarize, not my favorite Shakespeare.