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Charlotte Coffin, « Le langage fantasmatique du mythe dans Antony and Cleopatra », Caliban, ID : 10.3406/calib.2003.1494
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This paper explores the many references to classical mythology in Antony and Cleopatra as a consistent language, whose syntax is based on a process of accumulation and amplification. As wielded by the hero and heroine, myths bring about other myths, in a ceaseless engendering of visions which tend to obscure their perception of reality. The often-commented contrast between Antony and Cleopatra’s understanding of their situations and the apparent reality of the play is thus connected with the mythological production of fantasies, which invade the stage in the last two acts in a desperate attempt to ward off the inevitable catastrophe, and also to fight the humiliating counter-vision of a Roman triumph.