Abstract
Abstract: This article contests the equation of early modern understandings of world and empire by recuperating a notion of world that eludes our ability to know and possess it. It considers how Antony and Cleopatra employs the concept of the horizon to illuminate the virtues of what we cannot know—allowing us to embrace the unknown as a source of potential. Through a presencing of what might have been, the play recovers an understanding of world that exists beyond the scope of imperial authority and its historical record. Even as it closes in on an imperial history already determined, Antony and Cleopatra animates a lost horizon of possibilities and reveals the potential for multiple worlds contained in the presence of now.
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