Antony and Cleopatra
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So what if I copied work says Sir Andrew Motion, Shakespeare did all the time...Victorian Voices. Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra borrowed whole passages from Sir Thomas North's Life of Mark Antony he said, including the description of her barge: "The poop was beaten gold; purple the sails . . ." Motion makes... In this article: Andrew Motion, William Shakespeare, The Guardian, Ruth Padel, Second World War, Mark Antony, Antony and Cleopatra, and Charles Darwin |
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Guardian Unlimited | 7 days ago
Theatre review: The Roman Tragedies, Barbican, London
...morning. The final hour of the final play, Antony and Cleopatra, is about as good as theatre gets; combining astonishingly inventive stagecraft with glorious acting, raw as an open wound, totally invested and decidedly unpretty. I'd happily...
In this article: Rome, Coriolanus, William Shakespeare, Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican, London, and Julius Caesar
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washingtonpost.com | October 20, 2009
Joseph Wiseman, Broadway actor who played Dr. No, dies at 91
...Bergman in her Tony Award-winning role as Joan of Arc. Mr. Wiseman also portrayed the eunuch Mardian in a revival of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" staged by Guthrie McClintic. Mr. Wiseman's work in "Detective Story" brought him...
In this article: Joseph Wiseman, Dr. No, Broadway, World War II, Maxwell Anderson, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, Robert Brustein, Arthur Miller, Noel Coward, and Julie Harris
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Washington Times | August 21, 2009
Hearings begin in theft of $2.5M Shakespeare folio
...arrested Mr. Scott. The First Folio, one of about 230 still around, was published seven years after Shakespeare's death and includes the plays "Antony and Cleopatra" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Police seized hundreds of other...
In this article: William Shakespeare, First Folio, Defendant, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Durham University, Silver, and Ferrari
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Wikipedia | May 05, 2009
Fast and Loose (con game)
...to try - "It's easy, if you know how to spot it." At one time a popular scam, it was much practised by Gypsies , a circumstance alluded to by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (iv. 12): "Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,...
In this article: William Shakespeare and World War II
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Independent.co.uk - World | April 19, 2009
Egypt, thou knew'st too well: is Cleopatra's final secret out?
...of discovering queen's final resting place Just as he did fictitiously with Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare immortalised Antony and Cleopatra as a tragic tale of a defeated couple. But unlike Verona's star-crossed lovers, Marc...
In this article: Mark Antony, Cleopatra, Cleopatra, Zahi Hawass, Caesar Augustus, Egypt, Romeo and Juliet, Suicide, and Archaeologists
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Charlton Heston
...of apocalyptic horror. In 1972 Heston made his directorial debut, and starred, as Mark Antony in an adaptation of the William Shakespeare play he performed earlier in his theater career, Antony and Cleopatra ''. Hildegarde Neil was...
In this article: Charlton Heston, Ben-Hur, Gore Vidal, George Clooney, Lydia Marie Clarke, Oscar, Mark Antony, Alzheimer's disease, Richard Johnson, and National Rifle Association
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Variety | April 07, 2008
Antony and Cleopatra
(The Duke on 42nd Street; 200 seats; $79 top) The titular characters are reimagined as bratty fortysomethings in helmer Darko Tresnjak's adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra.' A Theater for a New Audience presentation of a...
In this article: William Shakespeare, Cleopatra, Laila Robins, and Darko Tresnjak
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Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film)
Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film) Antony and Cleopatra is a 1972 film adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare made by the Rank Organisation. It was directed by Charlton Heston and produced by Peter Snell from a...
In this article: Charlton Heston, Antony and Cleopatra, Hildegarde Neil, Peter Snell, William Shakespeare, Eric Porter, Freddie Jones, John Castle, and Fernando Rey
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Philly.com | July 19, 2009
Making Shakespeare work
...its run on another. Antony and Cleopatra becomes the 23d Shakespeare play the festival has put up in its 18 years, ever since the Rev. Gerard J. Schubert, now retired, had a vision that he set about making real. Schubert founded the...
In this article: William Shakespeare, DeSales University, Philadelphia, Twyla Tharp, and Mark Lamos
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Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623.
The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome.
Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare's work. She is frequently vain and histrionic, provoking an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare's efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses.
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