Antony and Cleopatra (Vol. 47) | Jonathan Gil Harris (essay date 1994)
Jonathan Gil Harris (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "'Narcissus in Thy Face': Roman Desire and the Difference it Fakes in Antony and Cleopatra," in Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 4, Winter, 1994, pp. 408-25.
[In the essay below, Harris examines how contemporary versions of the myth of Narcissus inform one's reading of Antony and Cleopatra, arguing that such a reading calls into question the traditional conception of Cleopatra "as the quintessentially female object and origin of heterosexual desire. "]
But what if the Devil, on the contrary, the Other, were the Same? And what if the Temptation was not one of the episodes of the great antagonism, but the mere insinuation of the Double? What if this duel developed in the space of the mirror?
Michel Foucault1
This essay examines the relation between Elizabethan versions of Ovid's Narcissus myth and Shakespeare's...
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