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Page 304
... Cleopatra's death . The final Chorus confirms a picture of Egypt lacking in fertility with the iron bounds of Providence in triumph over the human spirit . Both these plays depict the Type of Penitent Luxury . Garnier's Cleopatra is ...
... Cleopatra's death . The final Chorus confirms a picture of Egypt lacking in fertility with the iron bounds of Providence in triumph over the human spirit . Both these plays depict the Type of Penitent Luxury . Garnier's Cleopatra is ...
Page 318
... Cleopatra's Amazonian aspect . Cleopatra might in a comic way wish she had Antony's " inches " that he might know there " were a heart in Egypt " ( I.3 . 31 ) ( we recall , for example , Viola's quibble about how much she " lacks of a ...
... Cleopatra's Amazonian aspect . Cleopatra might in a comic way wish she had Antony's " inches " that he might know there " were a heart in Egypt " ( I.3 . 31 ) ( we recall , for example , Viola's quibble about how much she " lacks of a ...
Page 326
... Cleopatra is as vital to 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 ...
... Cleopatra is as vital to 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 ...
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