![]() ![]() ![]() That hard Egyptian bob, the snake bracelets, the ankh traced in kohl around the eyes. (And, rumors say, Angelina Jolie soon.) The exotic pomp, glory and decadence. The willful, spectacular Cleo of Shakespeare and Shaw. Schiff’s Cleopatra is even more amazing than the stories. “I wanted to make her approachable but also strip away the incredible gossamer myth floating around her all the time.”īut this is no heartless, ham-fisted debunking act. “I wanted to take a story we have completely mangled - few as effectively as Cleopatra - and make this both a factual book and a readable book for people who are not trained historians,” Schiff said from her office in Manhattan. Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer-winning nonfiction writer, turns her hand to this question in her sparkling new book, “Cleopatra: A Life.” ![]()
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