Antony's "secret house of death": suicide and sovereignty in Antony and Cleopatra.(play by William Shakespeare)(Critical Essay)

Philological Quarterly | March 22, 2000| | Copyright

Just after Antony dies from a self-inflicted wound, Shakespeare's Cleopatra asks, "is it sin, / To rush into the secret house of death, / Ere death dare come to us?" (1) The question appears to be rhetorical; Cleopatra soon announces her intention to prove her "resolution" by pursuing "the briefest end" (4.15.91). (2) This decision earns her the homage of her most assiduous critic: Caesar, fond of describing the living Cleopatra as a "whore" (3.6.67), refers to the dead one as "bravest at the last" and "royal" (5.2.333-34). Readers of the play have followed suit. The queen ...

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