Cleopatra Rules!

There is no greater drama than Antony and Cleopatra, regardless of what the literature books tell you. The silken lines of iambic pentameter were never more lovely nor powerful than those in this throbbing barge plying the Nile. The men were never more sexually ambivalent, the women never more voluptuous than those who climbed aboard the Egyptian queen's pulsing sculls. It's not a great play, but it IS a great sexual invocation. Read it again.