Antony and CleopatraPenguin UK, 7 апр. 2005 г. - Всего страниц: 336 'Shakespeare's play is death-haunted from the start, and its self-glorifying lovers exist in a dream of passion' Guardian |
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... Egypt, a place where Roman soldiers become women. As Caesar points out: From Alexandria This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes The lamps of night in revel; is not more manlike Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy More ...
... Egyptian scene may indicate that in the Orient the heroic Roman, who claims to be descended from Hercules, dresses in the gender-bending robes of a drag queen; or at least that in Egypt male and female attire are indistinguishable. Of ...
... Egypt emasculates, and it does so literally in the case of Mardian the eunuch, a castrated attendant of Cleopatra ... Egyptians | And the Phoenicians go a-ducking' (III.7.63–4), the unnamed soldier urges his commander-in-chief, pleading ...
... Egypt, as the Greek traveller and historian Herodotus famously wrote in his fifth-century BC Histories, was 'a gift of ... Egyptian court, he must have included bits of it in the revealed knowledge of the Pentateuch, the first five books ...
... Egypt. He is either in the grip of a Circean seductress who turns men into pigs, or he and Cleopatra become 'mysterious' through transcendent love, like John Donne's lovers in his poem 'The Canonization' (published 1633) or ...