Everyone wants to read about Antony and Cleopatra, especially about Cleopatra, who was not only history’s most famous female ruler but its most glamorous. The Egyptian queen’s love affair with the ...

In 30 B.C., Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII died by suicide after they were defeated by Octavian's forces in a civil war. But what if Antony and Cleopatra had defeated Octavian, the man who became ...

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 ...

Antony and Cleopatra is set in the 30s BC, during the period of the Second Triumvirate, which consisted of Antony, Octavius Caesar, and Lepidus. It is a story of middle-aged infatuation between the ...

The Folger Shakespeare Library is the perfect place to learn about William Shakespeare or see a traditional Shakespearean play. Its extensive collection of works and rotating exhibits immerses guests ...

John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra might be one of the most precisely engineered, solidly constructed, and elegantly executed operas of the past 25 years. For a tragic love story, it’s also ...

In September 31 BC, one of the most critical military campaigns in history reached its climax in a sea battle off the coast of Actium, Greece. The main players were, on one side, the famous lovers ...

Absorbing and visually enthralling, Synetic’s production of Antony and Cleopatra returns after sixteen years, with new leads and gads of the same spine-tingling energy. One of several in their ...

One Thomas Merriam has a very intriguing article on “Parallel Ironies: Henry VIII (All Is True) and Antony and Cleopatra ” (available in full on his web site ). He argues that the clown’s words to ...

American opera companies are concentrating their efforts on new operas (often with a politically correct dimension) like never before. Whether this is good or bad will depend on one’s perspective, but ...

Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s doomed power couple 'Antony and Cleopatra,' who are far better at love than war, in Simon Godwin's production at the National. By Demetrios Matheou ...

Antony and Cleopatra is set in the 30s BC, during the period of the Second Triumvirate, which consisted of Antony, Octavius Caesar, and Lepidus. It is a story of middle-aged infatuation between the ...