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 ...

It was to the mausoleum that Antony, dying of self-inflicted sword ... Disembodied, at large in the realm of myth, more context than text, Cleopatra is free to be of different character to ...

Augustus kept Rome, while Antony took Egypt. There he fell under the spell of Cleopatra, Egypt’s beautiful queen. Trouble in Egypt Romans feared that Cleopatra wanted the throne for herself and ...

Cleopatra returned to Egypt as Caesar’s great-nephew and heir, Augustus, teamed up with Marc Antony and Lepidus to fight Caesar’s assassins. By 42 BC, Augustus and his allies had gained the ...

But this alignment with Antony would prove to be her undoing. She was dangerous to have as a sister It wasn’t just brothers that Cleopatra had it in for. She also feared her sister Arsinoe was ...

Quintessence Theatre will present twelve actors performing multiple roles in a rotating schedule of A Midsummer Night's Dream ...