Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England by Yasmin Arshad

Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England

Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama

Yasmin Arshad

360 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern conceptions of Cleopatra offer a rich, complex, and...

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