Preceded in death by her attendants Iras and Charmian, FTP name this half of a titular Shakespearean couple who commits suicide by asp bite, the lover of Antony.
She tells Mardian, "I take no pleasure/ In aught an eunuch has" and is surprised to learn that he has "affections" although he "can do nothing/ But what indeed is honest to be done."  This exchange, from Act I, scene 5 of the play in which she appears, establishes her own preoccupation with "the demi-Atlas of this earth," for whom, she says, "I feed myself with most delicious poison."  The scene ends with her recalling "My salad days,/ When I was green in judgment: cold in blood."  Preceded in death by her attendants Iras and Charmian, FTP name this half of a titular Shakespearean couple who commits suicide by asp bite, the lover of Antony.
She tells Mardian, "I take no pleasure/ In aught an eunuch has" and is surprised to learn that he has "affections" although he "can do nothing/ But what indeed is honest to be done."  
Cleopatra