Interpretations of Cleopatra
.... writer's treatment of the subject, Cleopatra attempts to win over Augustus
Caesar and ultimately takes her own life having not moved Augustus
Caesar to
pity. ....
(1001

4

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Othello
.... characters like Gertrude or Claudius, or the assassins in Julius
Caesar and certainly .... that allow them to understand without any room for self-
pity that there ....
(2061

8

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Shakespeare's Plays About Love
.... Romeo and Juliet evoke only our
pity. .... For his part, Antony abandons Cleopatra to make a temporary peace with Octavius
Caesar and marry Octavia. ....
(1953

8

)
Racine's Play, Britannicus
.... Britannicus,
Caesar and all the state" (V.6; emphasis added). On this view, it is as much for the institution of Rome as for the individual victims, that
pity ....
(2758

11

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Dante Alighieri's poem The Divine Comedy
.... He is overcome by
pity and faints .... poets pass on to see the bodies of the three greatest traitors in history--Brutus and Cassius, who betrayed
Caesar, and Judas ....
(3043

12

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Manchild in the Promised Land
.... Seeing her strung out on the street, Sonny can only feel
pity for her, a measure of his mature .... "Cotton Comes to Harlem," "Black
Caesar," "Shaft," "Across 110th ....
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