Bard College classicist James Romm, author of memorably good books such as Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight ...

When he came to work up the story of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare had achieved an understanding of, and confidence in, his poetic function sufficient to allow him to assert the dramatic truth of ...

In the third act of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare tosses off an incidental scene to illustrate both how far Antony has fallen after his defeat at the battle of Actium and how not to negotiate.

Can you still party if you know you’re going to die tomorrow? In William Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” the eponymous characters’ imminent demise does not preclude their debauchery. The Harvard ...

[amazon 030016534X full] Adrian Goldsworthy, Antony and Cleopatra (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), 480 pp., $35.00. CLEOPATRA VII—“the Female Horus,” “the Great One,” “the Mistress of ...

The Translation called Dryden’s. Corrected from the Greek, and Revised, by A. H. CLOUGH, sometime Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford, and late Professor of the English Language and Literature ...