This site documents the narrative architecture of a concept album.
Each scene is represented by three lines:
the opening, the emotional center, and the final utterance.
The play is not retold.
It is passed through.
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is treated as source material rather than scripture.
Scenes are preserved in order.
Lines are extracted, not interpreted.
Meaning emerges through omission.
First line of the scene.
Best line of the scene.
Last line of the scene.
First line of the scene.
Best line of the scene.
Last line of the scene.
These lines are not sung as written.
They are mapped: rhythm, contour, tension, collapse.
Language becomes gesture.
Cappadocia is not a place in the play.
It represents distance — from Rome, from Egypt, from consequence.
The album occurs there.
This site contains brief excerpts from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare.
The play is in the public domain.
Selection and arrangement are original.
The document is complete.
Audio exists elsewhere.