- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
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- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- Richard II
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- The Tempest
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- Twelfth Night
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- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Pothinus’s anguished scream interrupts the rooftop dinner party that Cleopatra has held in honor of Caesar. Cleopatra knows precisely what is going on, since she secretly ordered Ftatateeta to assassinate Pothinus earlier in the evening. As everybody struggles to find out what’s going on, Cleopatra feigns ignorance, only telling Caesar that she “ha[s] not betrayed [him.]” As usual, Caesar is steps ahead of Cleopatra. He replies that there’s no way Cleopatra could have betrayed his trust, since he “ha[s] not trusted her” in the first place.
Caesar’s blunt admission aligns with his habit of approaching every situation and relationship practically…