to give answers to some of the play's frequently debated questions, such as why Cleopatra flees from the Battle of Actium and who should be answerable for the loss at war. The first subsection of ‘The Battle of Actium’ emphasises the power of Fate
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The Question of Culpability in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra
Revealing Cleopatra's Humanity
Sali Said
Challenging Hegemonic Patriarchy
A Feminist Reading of Arab Shakespeare Appropriations
Safi M. Mahfouz
Athens: ‘No, my most wronged sister! Cleopatra hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire up to a whore’. 26 Moreover, even Antony blames Cleopatra for losing the battle at Actium and desperately calls her ‘Triple-turn'd whore’, ‘false soul of
A Kingdom for a Mirth
Shakespeare's ‘Fatal Cleopatra’ and the Worm's Turn
Roger Stritmatter and Shelly Maycock
as Antony follows Cleopatra in flight from Actium. Lepidus's phrase ‘the operation of your sun’ (2.7.27) alludes to the final law of the alchemical tradition contained in the Tabula Smaragdina or Emerald Tablet . This alchemical treatise