In the Posture of a Whore: Changing Attitudes to 'bad' Women in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, Volume 2 |
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Page 315
... role " becomes " Cleopatra , and that it would seem necessary for him to acknowledge it at face value- he will " get her leave to part " -makes him more of a " fool " than a political equal . Cleopatra's ability to " cross him " in ...
... role " becomes " Cleopatra , and that it would seem necessary for him to acknowledge it at face value- he will " get her leave to part " -makes him more of a " fool " than a political equal . Cleopatra's ability to " cross him " in ...
Page 322
... role which is only half - conceived , and which necessitates casting himself in a role— that of the revenger - which further belittles him . Cleopatra's role as Isis is not one she adopts and lays down at will , but an identity of which ...
... role which is only half - conceived , and which necessitates casting himself in a role— that of the revenger - which further belittles him . Cleopatra's role as Isis is not one she adopts and lays down at will , but an identity of which ...
Page 325
... role - playing and of the rhetoric appropriate to various roles which illuminates the end of the play . Cleopatra's and Antony's last moments together again place Cleopatra on the stage ; she evades Antony's attempts to cast her in the role ...
... role - playing and of the rhetoric appropriate to various roles which illuminates the end of the play . Cleopatra's and Antony's last moments together again place Cleopatra on the stage ; she evades Antony's attempts to cast her in the role ...
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