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'Greatness going off’' in Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra tragedies
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The suicides of Antony and Cleopatra afforded the Renaissance dramatist various angles on what Shakespeare called ‘Greatness going off’. Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra tragedies in France and England pointedly thematised how the great failed to preserve the dignity of their rank and office in life, and how they fell short of securing personal posthumous renown in death. Antony and his Egyptian queen found themselves unexpectedly upstaged by social inferiors. Renaissance tragedians noted the...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.5871/bacad/9780197267332.003.0010
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- Publisher:
- British Academy
- Host title:
- Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy
- Series number:
- 246
- Chapter number:
- 10
- Pages:
- 201–218
- Publication date:
- 2022-03-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-09-10
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0068-1202
- EISBN:
- 9780191976735
- ISBN:
- 9780197267332
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