{"product_id":"cleopatra-histories-dreams-and-distortions","title":"Lucy Hughes-Hallett: Cleopatra [1991] paperback","description":"In the 2000 years since Cleopatra's death she has been recreated over and over again, each time in a form that fits the prejudices and fantasies of the age that produced it. To Chaucer she was the model of a good wife, while to Cecil B.De Mille she was \"the wickedest woman in all history\"; to the Arabic historian Al-Masudi she was a scholar and a sage; to George Bernard Shaw an emotionally retarded sex-kitten. These fantastic Cleopatras can be read as mirror-images of the culture that produced them. This book is about them, and also about politics - sexual, racial and constitutional - and about morality, neurosis and desire. The author is a journalist and critic who won the 1980 Catherine Pakenham Award as a feature writer with \"Vogue\".","brand":"Hughes-Hallett, Lucy","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47170212921683,"sku":"XG80099826002","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/cleopatra-histories-dreams-and-distortions","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}