`Shakespeare doesn't organize his tragedy as a drama of love between Antony and Cleopatra, but as a drama of the rise and fall of Antony in the struggle for world leadership'. What is your view"

Answer

Fundamentally, I disagree with this interpretation of the play. Indeed we do see the fall of the great Marc Antony but the play never actually depicts scenes of his rise to prominence. `Antony and Cleopatra' is renowned as one of the greatest love stories of all time and I align myself with this conception.

In this play, Antony's rise to greatness is assumed from `Julius Caesar' and from the stories and references the audience is given by other characters. This can be seen in Caesar's first scene in the play, Act 1 sc4, Caesar states:

"Thou didst drink

The stale of horses and the gilded puddle

Which beasts would cough at"

And...