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Classical Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
… as a Roman man in Shakespeare’s <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>. Examining Antony’s history as a Roman hero, I distinguish how his reputation is destroyed through his romantic involvement with Cleopatra. Furthermore, I consider the divine representations of Cleopatra and Octavian Caesar as they …
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The function of imagery in Antony and Cleopatra
<p>The modern scholar attempting any detailed analysis of imagery in the poetry of Shakespeare may well proceed with caution. The lack of a clear and definite statement of terms, the unwillingness to come first to grips with the problem of definition before proceeding with that of analysis may …
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Cleopatra: A Proposal for Another System Implementation Language
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Influencing factors in film costume design: the films of Cleopatra
… various representations of the historical figure Cleopatra in motion pictures. Beginning with a brief history of the changing role of the costume designer in film, and a brief history of both the historical and legendary Cleopatra, this paper then analyzes the factors that have influenced costume …
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"Daniel Casper Von Lohensteins ""cleopatra."" Eine Untersuchung Von Gehalt Und Form. (german Text)"
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The Changing Face of Fortune in Six English Versions of the Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
… English versions of the tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra. The concepts surrounding the goddess Fortune and her place in any culture change with the idea of the individual's ability to shape his own destiny. In the seventeenth century in particular Fortune becomes increasingly connected to …
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Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain
… and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd in the Cotton Cleopatra manuscript. This thesis initially provides an overview of the existing scholarship surrounding the Welsh translations of Geoffrey's Historia with a specific focus on the Cotton Cleopatra Brut. The textual examination of the two histories …
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Dominance and radical submission in seventeenth-century drama: chastity, fairness, and silence in portrayals of Mar(r)iam(ne), Sophonisba, and Cleopatra
… I, the Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba, and Cleopatra VII. I argue that the English stage produced two models of ancient royalty. Mar(r)iam(ne) and Sophonisba personify one model, functioning as white, seemingly obedient figureheads. I document playwrights portraying their men as reducing …
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Central women characters and their influence in Shakespeare, with particular reference to the Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare portrayed women in his plays as people who should be valued. This is an opinion I held in the past, and one I still hold after intense reading of his works and that of authors such as Marlowe, Webster, Thomas Kyd and others. Shakespeare created his female characters out of a mixture of …
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The popularity and influence of Shakespeare's English and Roman historical plays in America from the beginnings to 1950
… and unique idea of presenting Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra on alternate nights. In spite of early curtains, which make it necessary for the theatre-goer to eat his dinner in a hurry, the two Cleopatras have been playing to packed houses, first in London, then …
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Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity
… Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the …
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Sir Thomas North, An Elizabethan Translator
… Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, or Timon of Athena has been touched by the spirit, if not the word, of Sir Thomas North. The casual student knows that North’s work was a source used in some of Shakespeare’s plays. Scholars have credited North’s translation of …
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Visual narratives and the portrait busts of Edmonia Lewis
… Forever Free (1867), Hagar (1875), and Death of Cleopatra (1876). The academic attention paid to these works obscures the fact that portrait busts account for over a third of her artistic output. Consequently, Lewis's portrait busts have not received a concentrated analysis. Who were the …
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Don't Say Gay: Love Language in Coriolanus
… <em>Julius Caesar</em>, and <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>. The one element these plays have in common is the ideal Roman hero, the <em>civis romanus</em>, who meets a tragic end. These heroes are not generally considered queer as no free Roman male could allow himself, per social …
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Dear Son of Memory: Milton's Engagement with Shakespeare
… echoes of <em>Coriolanus</em> and <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em> in <em>Samson Agonistes</em> to problematize Samson’s heroic actions. Samson’s Chorus recollects the dragon imagery associated with Coriolanus, and the Chorus (and Samson himself) invoke the stately ship imagery associated with …
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Rhetorics of identity from Shakespeare to Milton
… as Shakespeare's Macbeth, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Webster's Duchess of Malfi, and scaffold texts of the period. Section Two deals with the remaining Shakespearean mature tragedies - Hamlet and King Lear - as well as with Marlowe's Dr Faustus. It takes as its focal point the viability - …
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Undernutrition as a factor in the learning ability of primary school pupils
The researcher sought to investigate the effect of undernutrition on the learning ability of primary school pupils in the Esikhawini and Kwa-Dlangezwa areas in the district of Empangeni in Kwa Zulu Natal. This study has six chapters. In chapter one the researcher introduces this report and mentions …
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Molecular Characterization of Citrus Tristeza Virus Isolates in Commercial Citrus Grown in Belize
… combination on field trees. One isolate on Cleopatra mandarin rootstock expressed no field symptoms but may be a possible source of a detrimental isolate to more susceptible citrus rootstock combinations. Field plants and field source inoculated indicator plants were used in this study. The …
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Transcending Temporality: a Study of the Reception of Julius Caesar’s Self-representation in Epic and Drama
… Caesar and Pompey and Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra) are investigated in the light of the set of qualities, identified as intrinsic to Caesar’s agenda set in his own works. By drawing parallels between Caesarean self-characterization and its interpretation by the dramatists I aim to …
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Freshwater snail diversity in relation to Schistosomiasis in the middle Zambezi basin in Lusaka Province
… species consisted of Bellamya cappillata, Cleopatra nsendwensis, Gabbiella kisalensis, Gabbiella sp, Lanistes ovum and Melanoides tuberculata. Linear regression was used to determine the relationship between snail diversity (species richness) and the number of infected children at the …
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