Shakespeare's Tragedies

Shakespeare's Tragedies

Anthony and Cleopatra II - Identity Politics (1x19)


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We look at Antony's crisis of identity as he tries to reconcile his notion of "Roman" honor with his "Egyptian" appetites, and propose that the stoic and martial Roman ideal that Antony is perpetually called on to represent is not as clearly differentiated from "Egyptian" flux and cunning as Rome would believe.

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