The Tragedie of Antonie Author:Mary Sidney The Tragedie of Antonie is Mary Sidney's translation of Robert Garnier's well-known sixteen century poem. Garnier does not rehash the historical events which would probably seem redundant to the sixteenth century reader. Instead, he paints a picture of misdircted intentions: Antony's love for Cleopatra and his supicion of her indifielity br... more »ing about his suicide, just as Cleopatra's love for Antony brings about her death. Perhaps Garnier's play (and Mary Sidney's translation) is an early form of psychonalytic theory in which emphais is directed on the characters' inner lives as opposed to external events. Less interest is displayed in what happened than in why it happened. The work seems to be an examination of the consciousness by excluding presuppositon of both objective reality and subjective response. Perhaps imaginary pheonomena were given equal status with that taken from the physical world. Garnier may have realized the presence of the mental phenomenon at then described and elucidated its meaning intuitively, eschewing both the empirical analysis of science and the rational deduction of logic.« less