You can make 592 anagrams from letters in Cleopatra (aaceloprt).
What magic in the utterance, what a revelation of Cleopatra's character and of Shakespeare's!
But to have been Caesar's mistress was Cleopatra's chief title to fame.
It is this greatness of soul in Cleopatra which Shakespeare has now to portray.
Remember the fiasco of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra?
Mark Antony supposedly gave the island to Cleopatra as a gift, and King Richard the Lionheart wed Queen Joanna there in 1191.
Mary Fitton was finer than his portraits; we want her soul, and do not get it even in Cleopatra.
This document was unknown in 1985 when the last page was closed on my seventh Cleopatra.
Later at the Pendleton home, the mother, Cleopatra Crowley-Pendleton, spoke of a daughter who loved reading and writing and Latin.
The whole scene is a libel upon Cleopatra and upon womanhood.
Schiff, for instance, conjures a scene with the young Cleopatra “scampering down the colonnaded walkways of the palace.”