Word: cleopatras
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...Cleopatra, what have you done...
Stratford, Conn.: Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and Antony and Cleopatra with Robert Ryan and Katharine Hepburn among the featured players...
Stratford, Conn.: Twelfth Night, The Tempest and Antony and Cleopatra...
...superb action in the play: the dispatching of Enobarbus' "chests and treasure" after the latter has deserted. I shall never cease to regret that Shakespeare didn't write another play covering Antony's life during the year between the end of Julius Caesar and the start of Antony and Cleopatra; there lay the stuff of a real high tragedy, a tale to compare with the analogous one of Aeneas and Dido...
Shakespeare's Cleopatra is, as Charmian says, "a lass unparallel'd," but Miss Hepburn's is not, alas, unparallel'd. This Mt. Everest of female roles has foiled many a seasoned Shakespearean within recent memory, including Vivien Leigh. Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Newcombe, Dorothy Green, Katharine Cornell, Janet Achurch, Peggy Ashcroft, and Edith Evans (though the last two came close). The celebrated willing suspension of disbelief does not extend to accepting Miss Hepburn as a sensuous femme fatale who ages from 28 to 38. Only once is she amorously convincing, when she gradually moves in toward Antony ("Eternity...