Shakespeare's Roman Plays

Mardian

Family: Egyptian · Role: eunuch attendant · First appears: Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene V

Life events

  • Cleopatra orders Mardian to falsely report that she has killed herself.(Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XIII · 📍 Alexandria)
    • With: Cleopatra
    • “Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself.”

Antony and Cleopatra · Act I, Scene V

  • employer: Cleopatra “Not now to hear thee sing. I take no pleasure In aught an eunuch has.”

Antony and Cleopatra · Act IV, Scene XIII

  • employer: Cleopatra “Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself. Say that the last I spoke was ‘Antony’, And word it, prithee, piteously. Hence, Mardian,”

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