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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...