Antony and Cleopatra (Vol. 47) - Love And Desire
LOVE AND DESIRE
Evelyn Gajowski (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Antony and Cleopatra: Female Subjectivity and Orientalism," in The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare's Tragedies, University of Delaware Press, 1992, pp. 86-119.
[In the following essay, Gajowski argues that from a critical standpoint, Cleopatra is alternatively viewed as the Romans see her—the whore responsible for Antony's fall from Roman honor and duty—or as the "archetype of the eternal feminine principle" who presents Antony with a life that surpasses anything Rome can offer. Gajowski rejects both of these views and presents a reading of Cleopatra as a woman who "ennobles" Antony through her love.]
She's beautiful and she's laughing.
—Hélène Cíxous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"
Whereas...
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