In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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... Antony's union with Cleopatra seems to enlarge him by suggesting that the androgynous unity which seems to underlie such an exchange of the superficial sexual trappings is a unity which transcends the ordinary . Antony is an " Arabian ...
... Antony's union with Cleopatra seems to enlarge him by suggesting that the androgynous unity which seems to underlie such an exchange of the superficial sexual trappings is a unity which transcends the ordinary . Antony is an " Arabian ...
Page 325
... Antony's leave - taking ; the sexual connotations of the language and the action insist that Antony's dying is also a consummation , enacted almost wholly in Cleopatra's terms . 84 85 She draws Antony to her in the monument as she drew ...
... Antony's leave - taking ; the sexual connotations of the language and the action insist that Antony's dying is also a consummation , enacted almost wholly in Cleopatra's terms . 84 85 She draws Antony to her in the monument as she drew ...
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... Antony in ' death ' as in life . It is a sexual vitality which , combined with Cleopatra's ' shrew- ishness ' , makes the moment of Antony's dying almost a comic moment : Antony . ... Now my spirit is going , I can no more . Cleopatra ...
... Antony in ' death ' as in life . It is a sexual vitality which , combined with Cleopatra's ' shrew- ishness ' , makes the moment of Antony's dying almost a comic moment : Antony . ... Now my spirit is going , I can no more . Cleopatra ...
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