Not really a second tier Shakespeare - maybe a third tier? It's got one classic speech, "age cannot wither her". Cleopatra is not a classic Shakespeare role, though one would assume it would be - he can't quite figure out a take. Antony is boozy. Octavius is smart.
Interesting to see how influential this was on Joe Mankiewicz's Cleopatra - the same death scenes, squabbling, use of soothsayers.
Cleopatra has a servant Charmion who has some wacky lines. There's lots of short scenes that jump locations - it does read like a film script.
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