{"id":790,"date":"2004-07-30T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T11:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2017-09-06T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:47:53","slug":"beheadings-in-antony-and-cleopatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2004\/07\/beheadings-in-antony-and-cleopatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Beheadings in Antony and Cleopatra"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> In Shakespeare\u2019s play, Cleopatra\u2019s outburst against Agrippa (who has suggested that Antony marry Octavia, Caesar\u2019s sister) is remarkable: \u201cThat Herod\u2019s head I\u2019ll have\u201d (3.3.5-6).  \u201cHerod\u201d cannot be used in the same sentence with \u201chead\u201d without evoking the story of John the Baptist.  I\u2019m not sure how this functions in the play, but it\u2019s hard to believe that Shakespeare\u2019s audience would have missed the allusion.   <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Shakespeare\u2019s play, Cleopatra\u2019s outburst against Agrippa (who has suggested that Antony marry Octavia, Caesar\u2019s sister) is remarkable: \u201cThat Herod\u2019s head I\u2019ll have\u201d (3.3.5-6). \u201cHerod\u201d cannot be used in the same sentence with \u201chead\u201d without evoking the story of John the Baptist. I\u2019m not sure how this functions in the play, but it\u2019s hard to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Beheadings in Antony and Cleopatra<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In Shakespeare&#8217;s play, Cleopatra&#8217;s outburst against Agrippa (who has suggested that Antony marry Octavia, Caesar&#8217;s sister) is\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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