plumiShakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra: Eduqas A‑Level English Literature questions
Every Eduqas A-Level English Literature exam question on Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, 2017–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 18 questions on Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, as a list
- June 2025, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine how Shakespeare presents Antony at this point in the play.
- June 2025, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): “Shakespeare creates a world in which there are no stable foundations but only shifting sands.” Examine this view of the play Antony and Cleopatra, making close
- June 2024, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine Shakespeare’s presentation of Antony at this point in the play.
- June 2024, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): “At the end of Antony and Cleopatra we are left with no sense of tragedy but only humiliation.” How far would you agree with this view of the play? Your respons
- June 2023, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine Shakespeare’s presentation of Caesar and Octavia at this point in the play.
- June 2023, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): “In Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare presents different kinds of conflict, but the most important is that between passion and reason.” Discuss this view of the
- June 2022, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine Shakespeare’s presentation of Antony at this point in the play.
- June 2022, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): “The play Antony and Cleopatra offers its audience not a great love story but an important lesson in weak leadership.” How far would you agree with this view? Y
- Autumn 2021, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine Shakespeare’s presentation of both Antony and Cleopatra at this point in the play.
- Autumn 2021, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): How far would you agree that the play Antony and Cleopatra shows the “tragic consequences of putting individual desires before the needs of the state”? Your res
- Autumn 2020, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine Shakespeare’s presentation of Antony at this point in the play.
- Autumn 2020, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): Discuss the view that “Antony and Cleopatra is a play primarily about international politics”.
- June 2019, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine Shakespeare’s presentation of Cleopatra at this point in the play.
- June 2019, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): How far would you agree that “Egypt rather than Rome is presented as the dominant power in Antony and Cleopatra”?
- June 2018, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine Shakespeare’s presentation of Antony’s thoughts and feelings at this point in the play
- June 2018, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): “The play’s dramatic appeal lies firmly in its presentation of political rather than personal conflict.” Discuss this view of Antony and Cleopatra.
- June 2017, Component 2, Q2(i) (15 marks): With close reference to the language and imagery in this extract, examine Shakespeare’s presentation of Antony at this point in the play.
- June 2017, Component 2, Q2(ii) (45 marks): “Shakespeare presents Roman attitudes and principles less sympathetically than Egyptian attitudes and ideas.” Consider this view of Antony and Cleopatra.
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