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No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded By such poor passion as the maid that milks And does the meanest chares. Eve Best as CLEOPATRA in ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (2014)

#for context: her husband has just died and she's saying (basically) how she's not a queen in this context but just a woman #and driven by mere womanly passions in the face of her loss #and that she'd be better served throwing her sceptre at the gods for taking her husband from her and telling them #that earth was as good as heaven until they took her husband from her #my gifs #eve best #cleopatra #antony and cleopatra #william shakespeare #i just loved her railing at the heavens #she's also (theatre joke) literally shouting at the gods #ESPECIALLY in the globe theatre

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