Shakespeare never presented a stage director with more problems than he did in Antony and Cleopatra ... though I am not proffering this as the best solution, to play the work as essentially ...

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 ...

particularly Plutarch's account of Mark Antony's alliance with Cleopatra. It seemed clear that the Romans had been intent on depicting her (at worst) as a decadent and lustful despot and (at best ...

Cleopatra's half-sister, who was reportedly killed in 41 BCE at the behest of the Egyptian queen's lover, Mark Antony. The skull was discovered in 1929 during excavations of an "Octagon" tomb in ...

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

and Cleopatra returns to Egypt. When Mark Antony (Richard Burton), Caesar's protégé, beholds Cleopatra aboard her elaborate barge at Tarsus some years later, he is smitten and becomes both her ...

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 ...