Nicolas de Montreux (1561?-1608?, pseudonym «Ollenix du Mont-Sacré») was an eminent, and prolific, literary figure when he wrote his tragedy Cléopâtre (15047). He was also politically engaged in the Holy League in the service of the Duke of Mercœur, governor of Brittany, and one may associate with the militant and spirited Duchess his interest in noble heroines who prefer death to humiliation. The tragedies of Cleopatra by Shakespeare and Samuel Daniel have sufficient points in common with Montreux’s work to enter into the same «discursive space», in which politics, religion and eroticism are intermingled.
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