Mary Butts; Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra
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Series No.: SMC 072
ISBN: 978-1-55713-140-9, Pages: 286
A Sun & Moon title.
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Mary Butts presents Cleopatra and her story in a completely new light. Eschewing the popular notions of Cleopatra as presented by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Shaw, in which Cleopatra is presented either as a tender martyr or a mindless hussy, Butts presents the reader with a figure of a great ruler, who had to choose her lovers in order that her kingdom could survive, but who recognized throughout the danger and potential of those choices.