Shakespeare's , Antony and Cleopatra . First we look to the Triumvirate as a whole .

Although they do not appear as a whole many times in the play, they create a feeling of

authority and power just by the speech used to describe them . The three bear the world

on their shoulders and seem to hold all of the power and prestige of kings and emperors .

The concept of power becomes alittle less defined when Pompey enters the picture . The

Triumvirate is threatened by Pompey's power on the sea . He has more power than they

do as one man . This is because he has more ships and a stronger fleet . Time collapses

this truth when the three men go to visit Pompey, in all of their glorious authority, and

form a truce . Pompey relents easily because he knows he cannot beat this union of three

men, the superpowers of the world . (Act III.)

The most important example of power and authority comes when the Triumvirate

is broken up into three individuals working independently . Mark Antony and Octavious

Caesar are the two strong legs of the Triumvirate, while Lepidus is the weak man who

follows the lead of the most powerful and authoritative of th

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not let his love for any woman come between him and his quest for power . The power

wear, but it makes them feel whole . He is appalled that he must explain this to the two

point and that he has made a grave error in giving them the kingdom . He will not cry at

daughters, Regan and Goneril . This appears when Lear comes to confront his daughters

alliance, but separate one has to rise .

him to have respect as well . Antony and Cleopatra die powerless, by suicide, but live

natural child . In this play both Lear and Gloucesters' unnatural children hold all of the

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