Antony and Cleopatra 2025 IGCSE Past Question
WILLIAMS SHAKESPEARE: Antony and Cleopatra 2025 IGCSE Past Question Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing. Either 1(a) Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it: EROS: What would my lord? ANTONY: Since Cleopatra died, I have liv’d in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword Quarter’d the world, and o’er green Neptune’s back With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack The courage of a woman; less noble mind Than she which by her death our Caesar tells ‘I am conqueror of myself’. Thou art sworn, Eros, That, when the exigent should come – which now Is come indeed – when I should see behind me Th’ inevitable prosecution of Disgrace and horror, that, on my command, Thou then wouldst kill me. Do’t; the time is come. Thou strik’st not me; ’tis Caesar thou defeat’st. Put colour in thy cheek. EROS: The gods withold me! Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts, Though enemy, lost aim...