SOURCE: "Shakespeare's Boy Cleopatra, the Decorum of Nature, and the Golden World of Poetry," in PMLA, Vol. 87, No. 2, March, 1972, pp. 201-12.
In the following essay, Rackin examines the significance of a widely discussed speech by Cleopatra (V.ii. 215-20).
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