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To play Cleopatra must be one of the greatest challenges to an actress. She is more difficult than any other Shakespearean female in that, until the final scene, one does not really know what motivates her being; and even in her death questions remain around her. The task then is to act an enigma. Yet in order to do this Shakespeare has given a few clues to his artist. The most significant comes in the last act where the Queen talks of her future in history:
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© 1983 Michael Scott
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Scott, M. (1983). The Queen of Love. In: Antony and Cleopatra. Text and Performance. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06467-0_2
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