This question is based on ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA.

Which character says: "The nature of bad news infects the teller."

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation

'SINCE I am coming to that Holy roome,

Where, with thy Quire of Saints for evermore

I shall be made thy Musique; As I come

I tune the Instrument here at the dore,

And what I must doe then, thinke here before.'

John Donne, 'Hymn to God my God'

In the stanza above, the poet recognizes that

This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.

A melodramatic play is based on: