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This Is How Real Historical Events Influenced Shakespeare's Most Famous Tragedies
The Bard churned out King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra as London reeled from the foiled Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and ...
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The Little-Known Story Of Arsinoe IV, The Murdered Sister Of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra
In 41 B.C.E., Egyptian queen Cleopatra convinced Mark Antony, her political ally and lover, to arrange the murder of her own ...
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Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare never presented a stage director with more problems than he did in Antony and Cleopatra; thus any production of the play is cause for excitement. Coleridge thought it Shakespeare's ...
Happy birthday, Shakespeare! Our favorite sayings, and some that missed the mark
Though he was born centuries ago, we're still watching his plays and studying his works. And his words continue to resonate ...
Writing new lines for the shadowy women of Shakespeare
Thirty of William Shakespeare's "underwritten" female characters speak their mind in a new book of speeches by English ...
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Antony and Cleopatra: An admirable concept using BSL falls flat
No theatre in Britain does more than this most unashamedly heritage space to reshape the landscape of Shakespeare ... deluded Antony is shaped by the schism between Cleopatra’s extravagant ...
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Mustapha Fahmi brings Cleopatra and Shakespeare to Rabat's book fair
Mustapha Fahmi makes a notable return to the International Publishing and Book Fair (SIEL) in Rabat. As the first Arab ...