This Excellent historical novel by British-born writer Mary Butts is the story one of the world's most legendary women. Butts presents Cleopatra and her story in a completely new light. Eschewing the popular notions of Cleopatra as presented by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Shaw, in which Cleopatra is presented either as a tender martyr or a mindless hussy, Butts presents the reader with a figure of a great ruler, who had to choose her lovers in order that her kingdom could survive, but who recognized throughout the danger and ...
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This Excellent historical novel by British-born writer Mary Butts is the story one of the world's most legendary women. Butts presents Cleopatra and her story in a completely new light. Eschewing the popular notions of Cleopatra as presented by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Shaw, in which Cleopatra is presented either as a tender martyr or a mindless hussy, Butts presents the reader with a figure of a great ruler, who had to choose her lovers in order that her kingdom could survive, but who recognized throughout the danger and potential of those choices.
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First U.s. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp x, 286. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered silver at the spine. ISBN: 0912946148 Very good indeed in slightly creased, very good dust jacket. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. Decent copy.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Blue cloth. x, 286 pp. A solid copy with only light wear. "Cleopatra, as a thoroughly intelligent head of state, a warm and witty woman, mistress, muse, and mother of a Caesar...is here viewed in depth by one of the most expert writers of our century..."-Virgil Thomson.
