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Introduction: Imagining Cleopatra
1. Sight of that face’: Passion and Politics in Mary Sidney’s Antonius
2. ‘Twixt majestie confuz’d and miserie’: Samuel Daniel’s Tragedie of Cleopatra
3. ‘Will yet this womans stubborne heart be woone?’: Lady Anne Clifford and Daniel’s Cleopatra
4. 'Then thus we have beheld': Staging Daniel's Cleopatra
5. ‘She did make defect perfection’: The Paradox and Variety of Shakespeare's Cleopatra
6. Epilogue and Conclusion: Cleopatra after Shakespeare
Appendix: The ‘Cleopatra’ Statue and the Poems at the Vatican
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