'Antony and Cleopatra' and the Tradition of Noble Lovers

Author / Editor
Hamilton, Donna B.

Title
'Antony and Cleopatra' and the Tradition of Noble Lovers

Published
Shakespeare Quarterly 24 (1973): 245-51.

Description
Assesses Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in the same tradition as Chaucer's account of Cleopatra in LGW, a tradition in which the protagonists along with "other famous lovers of antiquity" are "exemplars of truth and faithfulness."

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations