This riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen, Cleopatra. Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty...
作者：William Shakespeare，1564-1616，英国文艺复兴时期最伟大的剧作家、诗人、文学家；朗读：苑溪仙；播出时间：晚9点。
本集文本如下：
ACT IV SCENE XII Another part of the same.
[Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS]
MARK ANTONY Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine
does stand,
I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word
Straight, how 'tis like to go.
[Exit]
SCARUSSwallows have built5
In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers
Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,
And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony
Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,
His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,10
Of what he has, and has not.
[Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight]
[Re-enter MARK ANTONY]
MARK ANTONYAll is lost;
This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:
My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder
They cast their caps up and carouse together15
Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore!
'tis thou
Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart
Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;
For when I am revenged upon my charm,20
I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone.
[Exit SCARUS]
O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:
Fortune and Antony part here; even here
Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts
That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave25
Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets
On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd,
That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:
O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,--
Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home;30
Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,--
Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,
Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.
What, Eros, Eros!
[Enter CLEOPATRA]
Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!35
CLEOPATRAWhy is my lord enraged against his love?
MARK ANTONYVanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,
And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,
And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:
Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot40
Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown
For poor'st diminutives, for dolts; and let
Patient Octavia plough thy visage up
With her prepared nails.
[Exit CLEOPATRA]
'Tis well thou'rt gone,45
If it be well to live; but better 'twere
Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death
Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!
The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,
Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:50
Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;
And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,
Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:
To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall
Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho!55
[Exit]
本集朱生豪译文：
安东尼及斯凯勒斯重上。
安东尼
他们还没有集合起来。在那株松树矗立的地方，我可以望见一切；让我去看一看形势，立刻就来告诉你。（下。）
斯凯勒斯
燕子在克莉奥佩特拉的船上筑巢；那些算命的人都说不知道这是什么预兆；他们板起了冷冰冰的面孔，不敢说出他们的意见。安东尼很勇敢，可是有些郁郁不乐；他的多磨的命运使他有时充满了希望，有时充满了忧虑。（远处号角声，如在进行海战。）
安东尼重上。
安东尼
什么都完了！这无耻的埃及人葬送了我；我的舰队已经投降了敌人，他们正在那边高掷他们的帽子，欢天喜地地在一起喝酒，正像分散的朋友久别重逢一般。三翻四覆的淫妇！是你把我出卖给这个初出茅庐的小子，我的心现在只跟你一个人作战。吩咐他们大家散伙了吧；我只要向这迷人的妖妇报复了我的仇恨以后，我这一生也就可以告一段落了，叫他们大家散伙了吧；去。（斯凯勒斯下）太阳啊！我再也看不见你的升起了；命运和安东尼在这儿分了手；就在这儿让我们握手分别。一切到了这样的结局了吗？那些像狗一样追随我，从我手里得到他们愿望的满足的人，现在都掉转头来，把他们的甘言巧笑向势力强盛的凯撒献媚去了；剩着这一株凌霄独立的孤松，悲怅它的鳞摧甲落。我被出卖了。啊，这负心的埃及女人！这外表如此庄严的妖巫，她的眼睛能够指挥我的军队的进退，她的酥胸是我的荣冠、我的唯一的归宿，谁料她却像一个奸诈的吉卜赛人似的，凭着她的擒纵的手段，把我诱进了山穷水尽的垓心。喂，爱洛斯！爱洛斯！
克莉奥佩特拉上。
安东尼
啊！你这妖妇！走开！
克莉奥佩特拉
我的主怎么对他的爱人生气啦？
安东尼
不要让我看见你，否则我要给你咎有应得的惩罚，使凯撒的胜利大为减色了。让他捉了你去，在欢呼的民众之前把你高高举起；追随在他的战车的后面，给人们看看你是你们全体女性中最大的污点；让他们把你当作一头怪物，谁出了最低微的代价，就可以尽情饱览；让耐心的奥克泰维娅用她那准备已久的指爪抓破你的脸。（克莉奥佩特拉下）要是活着是一件好事，那么你固然是去了的好；可是你还不如死在我的盛怒之下，因为一死也许可以避免无数比死更难堪的痛苦。喂，爱洛斯！我祖上被害的毒衣已经披上了我的身子：阿尔锡第斯，我的先祖，教给我你的愤怒；让我把那送毒衣来的人抛向天空，悬挂在月亮的尖角上。让我用这一双曾经握过最沉重的武器的手，征服我最英雄的自己。这妖妇必须死；她把我出卖给那罗马小子，我中了他们的毒计；她必须因此而受死。喂，爱洛斯！（下。）
