Antony’s Romans use English, Cleopatra’s Egyptians use British Sign Language (BSL), and the entire play is subtitled on a huge screen that centres the staging.

A Roman general and an Egyptian queen, Mark Antony and Cleopatra flaunted their scandalous love affair while challenging the power of Rome. This 1883 painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema shows Mark ...

We learn much of what we know about Antony and Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s eponymous play through something of a non-entity. Enobarbus tells us that “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her ...

who was “murdered in Ephesos around 41 (B.C.) at the instigation of Mark Antony, Cleopatra’s lover,” the Austrian Academy of Sciences explained. The theory was recently debunked after a team ...

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John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week. John Adams has ...

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has frequently been called a "problem play." The characters do not fit into familiar Shakespearean molds, and the play itself refuses to be classified as a ...

Daisy Dunn - Author, The Missing Thread: A Women’s History of the Ancient World In the first century B.C.E., Fulvia, Octavia and Cleopatra competed for Mark Antony's heart. Illustration by ...

If the works varied in impact, none were like any other composer’s. But with “Antony and Cleopatra,” which premiered on Saturday at the start of San Francisco Opera’s centennial season ...