| In 1927, T.S. Eliot famously argued that
Shakespeare’s tragedy Titus Andronicus was “one
of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever
written…” |
“Fulvia was married to Antony when [he]
embarked upon his affair with Cleopatra... As news of
[the relationship] spread to Rome... Fulvia would do
anything in her power to bring him home. So it was that
[she] stirred up a war in Italy... [The historian Appian
cast her as a] ‘public affairs-obsessed woman who fanned
the flames of war out of jealousy for Cleopatra.’”— Smithsonian Magazine |