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==Artistic portrayals== [[File:Caesar-Coulouris-1937.jpg|thumb|Antony ([[George Coulouris]]) addresses the crowd in the [[Mercury Theatre]] production of ''[[Caesar (Mercury Theatre)|Caesar]]'' (1937), [[Orson Welles]]'s modern-dress adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy]] Works in which the character of Mark Antony plays a central role: * [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' ** ''[[Julius Caesar (1950 film)]]'' based on this (played by [[Charlton Heston]]) ** ''[[Julius Caesar (1953 film)]]'' based on this (played by [[Marlon Brando]]) ** ''[[Julius Caesar (1970 film)]]'' based on this (played by [[Charlton Heston]] again) * [[Antony and Cleopatra (disambiguation)|Antony and Cleopatra]], several works with that title * [[John Dryden]]'s 1677 play ''[[All for Love (play)|All for Love]]'' * [[Jules Massenet]]'s 1914 [[opera]] ''[[ClΓ©opΓ’tre]]'' * The 1934 film ''[[Cleopatra (1934 film)|Cleopatra]]'' (played by [[Henry Wilcoxon]]) * [[Orson Welles]]' innovative 1937 adaptation of William Shakespeare at [[Comedy Theatre (New York City)|Mercury Theatre]] has [[George Coulouris]] as Marcus Antonius.{{sfn|France|1977|p=186}} * The 1953 film ''[[Serpent of the Nile]]'' (played by [[Raymond Burr]]) * The 1963 film ''[[Cleopatra (1963 film)|Cleopatra]]'' (played by [[Richard Burton]]) * The 1964 film ''[[Carry On Cleo]]'' (played by [[Sid James]]) * The 1983 miniseries ''[[The Cleopatras]]'' (played by [[Christopher Neame]]) * The TV series ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' (played by [[Manu Bennett]]) * In the ''[[Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome]]'', Mark Antony featured as a short swordsman. * The 1999 film ''[[Cleopatra (1999 film)|Cleopatra]]'' (played by [[Billy Zane]]) * The Capcom video game ''[[Shadow of Rome]]'', in which he is depicted as the main antagonist * The 2003 TV movie ''[[Imperium: Augustus]]'' (played by [[Massimo Ghini]]) * The 2005 TV mini series ''[[Empire (2005 TV series)|Empire]]'' (played by [[Vincent Regan]]) * The 2005β2007 HBO/BBC TV series ''[[Rome (TV series)|Rome]]'' (played by [[James Purefoy]]) * The 2009β2013 TV series ''[[Horrible Histories (2009 TV series)|Horrible Histories]]'' (played by [[Mathew Baynton]]), and the 2015 [[Horrible Histories (2015 TV series)|reboot series of the same name]] (portrayed by [[Tom Stourton]] in 2019) * The 2006 BBC One [[docudrama]] ''[[Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire#Episode one: Caesar|Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire]]'' (played by Alex Ferns) * As Cleopatra's guardian and level boss (of Lust) in the Xbox 360 game ''[[Dante's Inferno (video game)|Dante's Inferno]]'' released by Visceral Games in 2010. * The [[Choices: Stories You Play]] visual novel ''A Courtesan of Rome'', in which he is depicted as one of the love interests. * The 2021 TV series ''[[Domina (TV series)|Domina]]'' (played by [[Liam Garrigan]]) * 2023 [[Netflix]] TV series [[African Queens (TV series)|African Queens]], portrayed by [[Craig Russell (English actor)|Craig Russell]]. ===Novels=== * In [[Colleen McCullough]]'s ''[[Masters of Rome]]'' series (1990β2007), Antony is portrayed as a deeply flawed character, a brave warrior but sexually promiscuous, often drunk and foolish, and a monster of vanity who loves riding in a chariot drawn by lions. * [[Margaret George]]'s ''[[The Memoirs of Cleopatra]]'' (1997) * [[Conn Iggulden]]'s ''Emperor'' novels (2003β13) * [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris's]] ''[[Dictator (Harris novel)|Dictator]]'' (2015) * [[Michael Livingston]]'s ''[[The Shards of Heaven]]'' (2015)<ref name="PW Shards">{{Cite web |title=''The Shards of Heaven'' by Michael Livingston |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-8031-9 |access-date=29 January 2016 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612162807/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7653-8031-9 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="KR Shards">{{Cite web |date=3 September 2015 |title=Review: ''The Shards of Heaven'' by Michael Livingston |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-livingston/the-shards-of-heaven/ |access-date=29 January 2016 |website=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612141321/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-livingston/the-shards-of-heaven/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ===Poetry=== * [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s fourteenth-century poem ''[[The Legend of Good Women]]''. * [[William Haines Lytle|Lytle, William Haines]] (1826β1863), ''Antony and Cleopatra''. * [[Constantine P. Cavafy]]'s poem ''[[The God Abandons Antony]]'' (1911), a hymn to human dignity, depicts the imaginary last moments of Mark Antony while he sees his fortunes turning around.
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