Cleopatra in Italian and English Renaissance Drama

Cover
Contents
A Note on the Cover
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.	‘No Humble Woman She’
	1.1	Cleopatra through the Eyes of Ancient Historians
	1.2	The ‘Egyptian Wife’
2.	‘The Subject of Talk the World Over’
	2.1	Enchantress and Martyr
	2.2	‘So lascivious, Cleopatra’
	2.3	The Legend of a Bad Woman
3.	The Egyptian Queen’s Rebirth
	3.1	Cleopatra Revised
	3.2	A Royal ‘Model’
	3.3	‘The Majestic Queen of the Nile’
	3.4	Seneca, Giraldi Cinthio, and Cleopatra
4.	The Great Theatre of Cleopatra
	4.1	An ‘invincible heart’
	4.2	A ‘wise and savvy’ Queen
	4.3	The ‘greatest and most beautiful queen in the world’
5.	‘The wanton luxurie of Court’
	5.1	From Cleopatra to Cléopâtre
	5.2	‘Or meurs donc Cleopatre’ / ‘Die Cleopatra then’
	5.3	‘A glorious Lady, and a mighty Queene’
	5.4	‘Beautiful, unchaste and evil’
6.	‘A lass unparalleled’
	6.1	Dramatist, Actor and Poet
	6.2	A ‘world of fluid size and shape’
	6.3	‘His speech sticks in my heart’
	6.4	Dramatis Personae
	6.5	‘The witch shall die’
	6.6	The Comi-tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
	1. Piero di Cosimo (1462-c. 1521), Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be of Simonetta Vespucci (c. 1490)
	2. Andrea Solario (1460-1524), Death of Cleopatra (about 1514)
	3. Michelangelo, Cleopatra’s Head (c. 1535)
	4. Unknown artist, Portrait of Elizabeth Raleigh as Cleopatra
	5. Unknown Venetian painter, Portrait of a Woman as Cleopatra (second half of the sixteenth century)