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- Title
A Woman "Whom Every Thing Becomes" A Defense of Shakespeare's Cleopatra.
- Authors
Peralta, Camilo
- Abstract
Cleopatra has always been one of Shakespeare's most controversial characters. As an ambitious, sexually-aggressive woman from the non-Western world, she seems to embody all of the conflicting and confused attitudes towards gender and race of Elizabethan England. Though some might view her treatment in the play as negative, or even "anti-feminist," the odd mix of praise and censure that runs throughout seems to belie any definitive reading. Regardless of her author's intentions, the overall impression that emerges of Cleopatra is a highly-favorable and sympathetic one. She is truly one of his greatest, tragic, and most complicated characters--of either sex.
- Subjects
SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; WOMEN in literature; HAMARTIA; FEMINIST criticism; ELIZABETH II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-2022
- Publication
ESSE Messenger, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 1, p40
- ISSN
2518-3567
- Publication type
Article