Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Cleopatra with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. She has fascinĪted readers and audiences for centuries and has been played by the greatest actresses of their time, from Elizabeth Taylor to Vivien Leigh to Janet Suzman to Judi Dench. Cleopatra is supremely vexing, tragic, and complex. She is the lover of Marc Antony, defender of Egypt, and, perhaps most enduringly, a champion of life. | Series: Shakespeare's Personalities Ser.Ĭleopatra is one of the most famous women in history-and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most intriguing personalities in literature.
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