Politics Critics

Question 1

Bowers

Answer 1

‘the main thrust of the play has to do with the complexities of power at the end of an epoch’
‘in Antony and Cleopatra the game of love has been a game of politics and been a game of power’

Question 2

Dean

Answer 2

‘it investigates the psychology of political behaviour’
‘the influence of private life, including sexual relationships…are inextricable’
‘his eulogy to his defeated rival…is abruptly broken off when political affairs intervene.’