...Simon J. Ryle On the relation between Shakespeare’s language and film as representational media, I consider the desire centred on Cleopatra’s absence from the poetic image via Siegfried Kracauer ’s notion that film ‘insists on rendering visible’ (58). This understanding of film is also to be found...

..., and to test whether xanthophyll cycle-dependent thermal energy dissipation is involved in dissipating excess excitation energy. • Methods ‘Cleopatra’ tangerine seedlings were fertilized and irrigated daily for 8 weeks with quarter-strength Hoagland's nutrient solution containing Al...

...Li-Song Chen; Yi-Ping Qi; Brandon Rhett Smith; Xing-Hui Liu 13 4 2004 03 9 2004 © 2005 Heron Publishing—Victoria Canada 2005 Abstract ‘Cleopatra’ tangerine (Citrus reshni Hort. ex Tanaka) seedlings were irrigated daily for 8 weeks with 1/4 strength Hoagland's nutrient solution...

....) Osbeck) scions grafted on three citrus rootstocks differing in salt tolerance: Carrizo citrange (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck × Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf.), Citrus macrophylla Wester and Cleopatra mandarin (Citrus reshni Hort. ex Tanaka). Salt stress reduced total...

... monstrous, ruled by the infamous Cleopatra. The land of the Nile provided ample material to stimulate the Greek and Roman imagination, especially in terms of monsters. Anubis Chimaera the Dionysus dogs eels Egypt Lucian of Samosata satyrs sphinxes Zeus anthropomorphism Astarte avian Bes bulls...

... for figuring ideal imperial masculinity. This is most apparent in late Victorian writing about Egypt. Britain’s newest imperial acquisition in 1882 was also, significantly, the backdrop for ancient Rome’s triumph over the East and over Egypt’s most famous queen, Cleopatra. This chapter demonstrates how Henry...

...), Coriolanus (representations of power and divinity), and Antony and Cleopatra (the Book of Revelation, end of times, and possibilities for transcendence), often in contrastive or antithetical ways. An audience accustomed to Christian interpretations of Ovid's Metamorphoses...

...Fulvia. Celia E. Schultz, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190697136.003.0005 Two of Fulvia’s sons, Curio and Antyllus, died at Alexandria alongside Antonius and Cleopatra in 30 bce. Her other two sons flourished in reign...

...This chapter examines how William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra presents a sense of common humanity based in matter that is influenced by early modern ideas about Egyptian culture. These ideas include the Nile as the origin of life and civilization and the Isis myth...

...This chapter explores the earliest representations of Cleopatra and places them in the clash between Roman and Egyptian culture. It aims to create a new position that will avoid the point of view which defines Egyptian culture as something mysterious and exotic. The chapter then analyses some...

...This chapter examines the representations of Cleopatra from Giovanni Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus and Francesco Petrarch's De Remediis utriusque Fortunae. It notes that the pair of woodcuts illustrating Boccaccio's representation in two situations has...

...This chapter explores the frescoes entitled the Banquet and the Incontro by Giambattista Tiepolo as tribute to both Cleopatra and Isaac Newton's experimental method. The frescoes represent Newton's method as an attempt to associate the spectacle of Cleopatra...

...Figure 17.1. Memphite Serapeum papyrus (now in the Louvre) with Greek and Macedonian months written in Apollonios' hand, plus a demotic contract . This article considers the extent to which the surviving documentation from the five-hundred-year period from Cambyses to Cleopatra allows us...

... and Anthony and Cleopatra. Julius Caesar shows the republic deprived of its public purpose, its private world similarly corrupted, and also represents Brutus and Cassius's disastrous but affectionate friendship. Anthony and Cleopatra shows the exhaustion...

... of maternity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra is then detailed. Antony and Cleopatra encloses what was a new epistemological culture of memorialisation. Cleopatra's ending recapitulates the ‘good death’ of the Renaissance mother as it was reconceived by those women whose...

...At the centre of this chapter is Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, approached chiefly by way of several French dramatic precursors (Cléopâtre captive, by Étienne Jodelle; Marc Antoine, by Robert Garnier; Cléopâtre, by Nicolas de Montreux), but also through Plutarch’s Life, including Simon...

... Marco Millions, in which lines and scenes strikingly echo Caesar and Cleopatra. Somewhat intimidated by Shaw's reputation, O'Neill, when in England, never attempted to meet Shaw, who admired the younger playwright's work. Yet when Yeats and Shaw planned an Irish Academy...

...This chapter on Cleopatra begins with her image in Roman literature, which is very negative and sees her as a threat to Rome. But that image dates from the aftermath of the final struggle between Octavian (later Augustus) and Mark Antony and does not reflect the real situation in which Cleopatra...

...In 37/36 BCE, Cleopatra changed her reckoning of the years of her reign from a simple “year 16” to “year 16 which is also year 1.” The reasons lie in a change in royal ideology linked to her recovery of some of the old Ptolemaic possessions outside Egypt by gift from Mark Antony. At the same time...

...Picking up the themes of chapters 3 and 4, this chapter looks at Cleopatra not in terms of the Roman depiction of her but in the context of the (often murderous) dynastic politics of the Ptolemaic monarchy. In this light, Cleopatra can be seen as trying to revive the fortunes of this kingdom even...