TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Antonio and Cleopatra

“Antonio e Cleopatra” is a literary work of William Shakespeare.
In the first scene Shakespeare talks about the love between Cleopatra and Antonio, in particularly physical love.
The two characters love each other so much that they are afraid of getting lost, in fact, where the arrival of the messenger brings news from Rome, Antonio him out,while Cleopatra is attacked by fear of losing Antonio .
As all opening scenes ,Shakespeare uses language to create interesting or exciting situation, for example in this scene ,the narrator focuses the passional love between the two characters
In the second scene there are three new characters:Iras,Carmiana and Alexas.In the first line where there is a fortune teller reads the hands of the three girls. 
The soothsayer provides the same races for all three women.
At some point comes where Cleopatra tries Antonio, but at first did not trova.Ad some point enters Antonio with the guards and the messenger but Clepatra do not want to see.
The messenger has confided to Antonio that his wife Fulvia fell first to fight with his brother Lucio, but the war ended quickly with an alliance against Caesar but the first success in the war drove from Italy them.At that moment another messenger who gave the news of the death of Fulvia where he also holds out a letter to Antonio.
After he is known how the death, Antonio decides to leave not only for the death of Fulvia, but also because some trusted friends had called to war to fight against Caesar.
As all plays Shakespeare knew to capture the interest and imagination of the audience and introduces the question of conflict in this case the war against Cesar.