Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as Cleopatra's, is provided by the knowledge that command depends on devotion as well as self-esteem. In Troilus and Cressida, a centrifugal labor on love and honor, the rejection of the mundane world seemed a base deception; in Antony and Cleopatra it seems like a nobler refuge. In East and West, Shakespeare scized on effective dramatic terms for the workings of love and war. Cleopatra replaces the gods as the highest reference for the hero's sense of self. Antony and Cleopatra are Achilles and heaven brought to earth in West and East. The struggle...