 The God
Hercules...From William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: "'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony lov'd / Now leaves him." (4.3.30-1). Notice the difference in capitalisation between Shakespeare and Eliot, which is a kind of clarification on Eliot's part: he makes clear that he refers, presumably like Shakespeare, to "Hercules the God of sexual virility," as he indicated on the Thayer copy. reference topics
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