Download or read book Antony Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antony and Cleopatra written by Colleen McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this final novel in the Roman series, McCullough turns her attention to the legendary romance of Antony and Cleopatra.
Download or read book Antony and Cleopatra written by Adrian Goldsworthy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar. ***** The monumental love affair between Antony and Cleopatra has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in control of the Roman Empire, Antony was perhaps the most powerful man of his day. And Cleopatra, who had already been Julius Caesar's lover, was the beautiful queen of Egypt, Rome's most important province. The clash of cultures, the power politics, and the personal passion have proven irresistible to storytellers. But in the course of this storytelling dozens of myths have grown up. The popular image of Cleopatra in ancient Egyptian costume is a fallacy; she was actually Greek. Despite her local dominance in Egypt, her real power came from her ability to forge strong personal allegiances with the most important men in Rome. Likewise, Mark Antony was not the bluff soldier of legend, brought low by his love for an exotic woman - he was first and foremost a politician, and never allowed Cleopatra to dictate policy to him. In this history, based exclusively on ancient sources and archaeological evidence, Adrian Goldsworthy gives us the facts behind this famous couple and dispels many myths. 'Excellent' Tom Holland 'Refreshingly frank' Mary Beard
Download or read book The Masks of Anthony and Cleopatra written by Marvin Rosenberg and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his analysis, Marvin Rosenberg sets out to steer a path between the "extremes" of Rome and Egypt and all they stand for: and to explore the relentless "to and back" confrontation of their different sets of values which leads ultimately to destruction."
Download or read book Antony and Cleopatra written by Sara M. Deats and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater.
Download or read book The Odyssey of Love written by Paul Krause and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolle Lege, take up and read! These words from St. Augustine perfectly describe the human condition. Reading is the universal pilgrimage of the soul. In reading we journey to find ourselves and to save ourselves. The ultimate journey is reading the Great Books. In the Great Books we find the struggle of the human soul, its aspirations, desires, and failures. Through reading, we find faces and souls familiar to us even if they lived a thousand years ago. The unread life is not worth living, and in reading we may well discover what life is truly about and prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage of life.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Hamlet for Kids written by Brendan P. Kelso and published by Playing With Plays, LLC. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who will you be? Hamlet? Claudius? Ophelia? Rosencrantz or Guildenstern?! Hamlet like you have never experienced it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 6-20+ actors, kids, families, or anyone who wants to enjoy and perform Shakespeare's classic play. Hamlet for Kids is a play versatile enough for sibling fun, classes, drama groups, homeschool groups, or backyard performances. It's appropriate and fun for all ages! Plays range from 15 to 25 minutes. Which character will your kids be?! What you will get: Fun! 3 hilarious modifications for group sizes: -- 6-7+ -- 8-14+ -- 11-20+ Actual lines from Shakespeare's play highlighted for easy identification Creatively funny and witty telling of the remaining script A delightfully funny rendition that is easy for ADULTS to understand too! A kid who loves Shakespeare! This mini-melodramatic masterpiece is sure to spark a love of Shakespeare. Shakespeare is difficult enough in class or watching onstage, let alone trying to teach the stories to children, but as the author's mantra states in the book, "there is no better way to learn than to have fun! "Kids who have read this have also eventually purchased the entire Shakespeare works, and have completed 'hero' reports on Shakespeare at school. Guaranteed to have you coming back for more!
Download or read book The War That Made the Roman Empire written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of one of history's most decisive and yet little known battles, the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, which brought together Antony and Cleopatra on one side and Octavian, soon to be emperor Augustus, on the other, and whose outcome determined the future of the Roman Empire"--
Download or read book Antony and Cleopatra written by Carol Chillington Rutter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers pick up the play's themes of desire and delinquency, exoticism and erotic politics to locate the most ambituous love story ever told in a new present. Is the play tragedy? Comedy? Farce? Rutter shows it's all three.
Download or read book The Complete Pelican Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 1810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are accompanied by same-page notes and glossaries. Particular attention has been paid to the design of the book to ensure that this first new edition of the twenty-first century is both attractive and approachable.
Download or read book Cleopatra and Antony written by Diana Preston and published by Walker Books. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a stiflingly hot day in August, 30 B.C., the thirty-nine-year-old Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life, rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavian, the future emperor Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had died in her arms following his own botched suicide attempt. Oceans of mythology have grown up around them, all of which Diana Preston puts to rest in her stirring history of the lives and times of a couple whose names—more than two millennia later—still invoke passion, curiosity, and intrigue. This book sets the romance and tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra's personal lives within the context of their political times. There are many contemporary resonances: the relationship between East and West and the nature of empire, the concealment of personal ambition beneath the watchword of liberty, documents forged, edited or disposed of, special relationships established, constitutional forms and legal niceties invoked when it suited. Indeed their lives and deaths had deep political ramifications, and they offer a revealing perspective on a tipping point in Roman politics and on the consolidation of the Roman Empire. Three hundred years would pass before the east would, with the rise of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire, once again take a share of political power in the Mediterranean. In an intriguing postscript, Preston speculates on what might have happened had Antony and Cleopatra defeated Octavian at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.
Download or read book Antony and Cleopatra written by Andrew Matthews and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two million Shakespeare Shorts sold! Discover the world of Shakespeare with this collection of brilliant stories - perfect for readers of all ages. In the mysterious and exotic land of Ancient Egypt, a courageous Roman general and a beautiful queen fall madly in love. But after years of happiness together, a political fight between the rulers of Rome forces Antony to leave Egypt - with disasterous consequences for him, and his Egyptian queen... A wonderful retelling of one of Shakespeare's most dramatic love stories. Have you read all of The Shakespeare Stories books? Available in this series: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, and King Lear.
Download or read book Antony and Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy of adultery amid political conflict is now available in a richly documented and illustrated Norton Critical Edition.
Download or read book Peter Hall Directs Antony and Cleopatra written by Tirzah Lowen and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). Peter Hall's brilliance, particularly in staging Shakespeare, has long been recognized. This book takes us behind the scenes at England's National Theatre to observe a master at work, probing into the depths of a play of enormous challenge and opportunity, shaping and orchestrating text and action.
Download or read book Sonnets and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dawn Empress written by Faith L. Justice and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Rome reels under barbarian assaults, a young girl must step up?After the Emperor's unexpected death, ambitious men eye the Eastern Roman throne occupied by seven-year-old Theodosius II. His older sister Princess Pulcheria faces a stark choice: she must find allies and take control of the Eastern court or doom the imperial children to a life of obscurity-or worse! Beloved by the people and respected by the Church, Pulcheria forges her own path to power. Can her piety and steely will protect her brother from military assassins, heretic bishops, scheming eunuchs and-most insidious of all-a beautiful, intelligent bride? Or will she lose all in the trying?Dawn Empress tells Pulcheria's little-known and remarkable story. Her accomplishments rival those of Elizabeth I of England and Catherine the Great of Russia as she sets the stage for the dawn of the Byzantine Empire.
Download or read book Antony and Cleopatra written by Vanessa Redgrave and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Actors on Shakespeare series draws on the contemporary relevance and enjoyment to be found in Shakespeare. Each book contains a personal response to a particular character, in this case Vanessa Redgrave offers her view of Cleopatra.
