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Becoming Cleopatra

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This article investigates the ramiﬁcations of the word ‘become’ as it is deployed in Antony and Cleopatra, the term being invested with several distinct meanings which Shakespeare pursues the implications of and at the same time plays off against one another. It is argued that the play is deeply concerned with questions of an ontological nature, and that the contraposition between the rival perspectives of Rome and Egypt reﬂects a tension between the different conceptions of being, becoming, and identity articulated within it.

Source: Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)

DOI: 10.17613/ekyf-j503

Author: Lucking, David

Language: English

Topic: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6962379240

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