This doomed romance ended abruptly in 44 BCE when Caesar was quite literally stabbed in the back (and from all sides) by his ...

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 ...

Antony and Cleopatra has the strangest stage history of any of Shakespeare's major tragedies. Richard Madelaine explains how the play's challenging complexity has at different times inhibited or ...

following Antony and Cleopatra's defeat at Actium, Octavian's forces entered Alexandria in the summer of 30 B.C. Cleopatra barricaded herself behind her mausoleum's massive doors, amid stores of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taking to their social media accounts on X, fans couldn’t help but gush over the actress’ beauty. As history tells it, Queen ...

Julius Caesar: Timothy Dalton. Marc Antony: Billy Zane. Octavian: Rupert Graves. Directed by Franc Roddam. Based on the novel "The Memoirs of Cleopatra" by Margaret George.