There’s an old expression, “A lawyer who defends himself has a fool for a client.” While John Adams didn’t decide to take on ...

Blanche McIntrye’s bilingual staging of Antony and Cleopatra at The Globe is as frustrating as it is powerful. Antony’s Romans use English, Cleopatra’s Egyptians use British Sign Language ...

Queen Cleopatra was survived by her daughter, Cleopatra Selene, who would go on to rule a kingdom of her own in North Africa.

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 ...

15 min. If Antony and Cleopatra were on Facebook, their relationship status would read: It's Complicated. Theirs is an imperfect coupling fraught by marriages with other people, children born ...

The Virginia Opera and the Richmond Symphony presented Damien Geter’s new opera about the landmark Supreme Court case ...

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 ...

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 ...