Militarism and Pacifism in Shakespeare’s "Antony and Cleopatra"

This paper reads “Antony and Cleopatra” against the tension between a militarist past and a pacifist Stuart culture, as delineated by Steven Marx. In the early acts of “Antony and Cleopatra,” Rome evaluates both Antony and Cleopatra from the militarist perspective, which sees peace as idleness and a...

The International Journal of Literary Humanities

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