ENGL 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cross-Dressing, Semicolon, Emasculation
31 May 2016
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Mnd : male and female are integrated through marriage, but are still separate. Anthony and cleopatra : cinnamon salmon and passion are intermingled gender binary still there, but anthony becomes feminine cleopatra is very powerful and . Anthony and cleopatra picks up after julius caesar. First century bc rome and turns into proactive civil war: republic. Questions of empire and sexuality = intrigue of play. Plutarch"s lives of the greeks and romans = main source p. 332 ; p. 191-3 l196-224 p. 174 l15 18. We are invited to imagine this this scene is not shown in the play all windows that she. What"s beautiful about cleopatra = her performance, not necessarily her body concern of. Rome egypt (east and west) older empires (used) being subjugated (?) Messages keep interrupting action and mixing up the worlds (east and west. Theologically, the worlds are mixed: actors in rome leave the stage, and actors in egypt appear.
