Word: cleopatra
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...sheer tensile strength of a woman's will in Greek tragedy is unparalleled in any other literature. Of 33 extant plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, ten bear the names of women. Among the 39 Shakespearean titles, only three acknowledge women-Juliet, Cleopatra and Cressida-and all three share top billing with men. Sophocles' Antigone is a test of wills between a man and a woman, a king and his subject...
...Cleopatra got decked out in a rug, and Scarlett O'Hara, fresh out of frills, went to town in Tara's velvet draperies. Contemporary women can now be almost as enterprising. They can pick from Designer Jenny Bell Whyte's new collection of "Museum Pieces," which gives proof that some of the best fashion around has for years been underfoot, on walls and over windows...
...dreamed there was an Emperor Antony," Shakespeare's Cleopatra soliloquizes after his death. "His legs bestrid the ocean; his rear'd arm crested the world; his voice was propertied ... as all the tuned spheres. Think you there was, or might be, such a man as this I dream...
...fellow actors often express admiration for Scott because he has the courage to risk professional failures. His characterization of Mordecai Jones, the aging but still canny Flim-Flam Man, was too strongly derivative of W.C. Fields, and his performance as Antony in Antony and Cleopatra was a self-proclaimed disaster. "I should have played Cleopatra," he says; Antony is one of the few roles beyond his ambition. "The great danger with most actors," he says, "is that the more successful they become, the less risk they will take with their careers. They forget why they became actors in the first...
...direction, which features bodies dragged through a ditch of urine and a man plunked face down in a John, makes one doubt that Mankiewicz ever saw, much less made, All About Eve-or, for that matter, Cleopatra...