Scenes from the Life of Cleopatra (Sun and Moon Classics)
Publisher: Sun and Moon Press
Published: October 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781557131409
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; General; 20th Century English Novel And Short Story; Poetry; Fiction; d. 30 B.C.; Fiction / General; B.C. 83?-30; Antonius, Marcus,; Caesar, Julius; Cleopatra,; Queen of Egypt,
Description: This Excellent historical novel by British-born writer Mary Butts is the story one of the world's most legendary women. Butts presents Cleopatra and her story in a completely new light.

Eschewing the popular notions of Cleopatra as presented by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Shaw, in which Cleopatra is presented either as a tender martyr or a mindless hussy, Butts presents the reader with a figure of a great ruler, who had to choose her lovers in order that her kingdom could survive, but who recognized throughout the danger and potential of those choices.