John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of ...

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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 ...

Here, she talks to us about the book’s surprising inspiration, among other things. There is a scene in Cleopatra And Frankenstein, the debut novel from writer Coco Mellors, that is plucked ...

Cunning, charming and captivating, the Egyptian Cleopatra was horrifying, yet fascinating to many of Rome’s citizens. Just when she may have thought she was in sight of the Roman throne – the ...