Cleopatra—Shakespeare’s muse of the past, mistress to Caesar and Mark Antony, wielder of the poisonous asp—has been dead for two millenia, but her name and image still resonate in t
This original and stimulating study traces the connections that Shakespeare makes between that ancient Roman culture of cruelty and the order which structured thought and belief in the Christian Engla
Winner of the Virginia Prize for FictionAs small children, Rudyard Kipling and his sister Trix lived an enchanted life in India playing with their beloved servants and running around freely. Their inn
