You may wish to sign up with Mark Van Doren, the great professor of English who lived from 1894 to 1972. In 1938, he wrote Shakespeare, which can be had in an edition from NYRB. The foreword is by ...

2 August ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA: Shakespeare's Globe opens ... discussing the updated third edition of his book, London's Street Trees. Hear about the impressive range of species — more than ...

Folger was always a collector of sorts: He saved every book ... Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale—would have been lost. No more than 750 copies of the First Folio ...

A best-selling book about the Bard? Not even an accessible biography ... but we know no more about Falstaff. If your Cleopatra is an ageing whore, and her Antony a would-be Alexander in his dotage, ...

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

She, in turn, wonders whether she should cheat on him with a sexy former lover who has been cast opposite her in an upcoming production of “Antony and Cleopatra.” ...

One notable simile in Antony and Cleopatra is uttered by a character of Shakespeare’s own invention, Scarus, according to whom Antony absents himself from the Battle of Actium “like a doting mallard”.

Entertaining launched Martha's career and solidified her as a household name. The book is a comprehensive guide to ...

Antony Blinken has a book deal, billed by his publisher as a “rare glimpse” into the “challenging and often controversial” ...

Courtesy of Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists searching for Cleopatra’s tomb have ... Roman leaders Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. According to lore, she took her ...

Antony Blinken has a book deal, billed by his publisher as a “rare glimpse” into the “challenging and often controversial” ...