...ich greets us in Shakespeare's and Plutarch's Cleopatra. Story might have taken a lesson from Titian's matchless Cleopatra in the Cassel Gallery, or from Marc Antonio's small woodcut of Raphael's Cleopatra . Hawthorne was an idealist, and he idealized the materials in Story's studio, for literary purposes, just as Shakespeare idealized Henry V., who was not a magnanimous monarch at all, but a bruta...