The goddess isis biography of william shakespeare

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  • Isis is a fertility goddess, a version of the Great Mother, like Demeter or Gaia.
  • Cleopatra's most striking qualities closely resemble those of the goddess Isis, and may have been suggested by her.

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    “ The Costume of this play may be taken to be somewhat mixed. That the Roman fashions were for the most part accepted wherever the power of Rome had made itself a reality may be safely assumed, but then these fashions were themselves moulded on those of other nations. . . . But fashion, in old as in modern times, belongs to the upper classes, so that while I have little hesitation in clothing Kleopatra and her court in the habit, or some slight modification of the habit, prevalent among Greeks—more or less adopted also by the Roman aristocracy—the poor people, the Clown especially, and perhaps the Soothsayer, might very well exhibit in their dress some tradition of the old nation to which they belonged. 1 The Ionic chiton, the chlamys, the peplos, the transparent fine linen vest, chemise, or under tunic were dresses which obtained throughout the shores of the Mediterranean with but little variation beyond that resulting from increase or decrease in length or breadth of material. No doubt, too, the fashionable ladies of Alexandria had their parasols, or umbracula, just the same as the ladies of Athens, Rome, or Pompeii. Broad-brimmed straw hats, with low, saucer-shaped crowns, were also probably worn. Octavia, after her marriage, might appear in the stola and the square-c

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    Antony and Cleopatra and Hymenaei

    1William Shakespeare’s second Roman tragedy, AntonyandCleopatra (1608) offers a multiple perspective on the story of Antony’s love for the Queen of Egypt and his subsequent fall from power. A reading of the general context for the play shows its relevance to the Stuart politics of union (Parry 1981), as well as to the broader expectations of the audience. Interestingly, such expectations, as far as entertainment is concerned, are met with the insertion of codes from civic pageantry and court entertainment within the dramatic texture of the play—offering thus a variety of perspectives, in particular on the subject of the Mediterranean world. The theme of a Mediterranean dream appears both within the characters and in the wealth of the poetic imagery. There is an ambiguity in the use of the adjective Mediterranean, a term which will be used in the following lines in a restricted sense, with such connotations as exotic, foreign, and ornamental entertainment, and not as the sea itself. As to the word dream, its sense is also restricted here to imagination, and particularly visual imagination (Sabatier 121). The question whether authors such as Plutarch were considered English rather than foreign, since they were directly applied to Elizabe