1. Discuss the attitudes to Cleop
Cleopatra cannot resist and interrupts him with: "No, let me speak". ... There is the goddess Isis, the queen of the Nile and a whore. ... There is the Cleopatra who is in love with Antony, so much so that she kills herself to be with him and then there is also the Cleopatra who continually sets out to be manipulative and over the top. ... Plays were, after all, the political portraiture of the seventeenth century and often showed the popular views of time. Cleopatra is shown to be no ordinary women. ...
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- Grade Level: High School