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Scenes from the life of Cleopatra
- Title
- Scenes from the life of Cleopatra / by Mary Butts.
- Author
- Butts, Mary, 1890-1937.
- Publication
- Los Angeles : Sun & Moon Press, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR6003.U7 S34 1994g | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 286 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- This Excellent historical novel by British-born writer Mary Butts is the story one of the world's most legendary women. 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.
- Series Statement
- Sun & Moon classics ; 72
- Uniform Title
- Sun & Moon classics ; 72.
- Subject
- ISBN
- 1557131406
- OCLC
- ocm30328811
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries