Word: clipatra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BRADLEY, who wrote the only essay on Antony and Clipatra worth saving, said that the play was less powerfull than the other great tragedies because the element of reconciliation was stressed so forcefully. But if King Lear is Shakespeare's greatest tragedy. Antony and Cleopatra is surely his greatest play. And this is due precisely to the element of reconciliation. Its structure is vast and symphonically cohesive and organic. No play can equal the sustained intensity of the lyrical poetry, the unfailingly perfect interpenetration of theme, plot, character, time image, and metaphor. In Nilus and Tiber. East and West, queen...
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