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Antony and Cleopatra
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Queen of Egypt Cleopatra VII
C LEOPATRAVII Born: 69 B.C.E.Alexandria, Egypt Died: August 30, 30 B.C.E.Alexandria, Egypt Egyptian ruler Cleopatra VII was the last ruler of Egypt from the house of the Ptolemy, a family that had ruled Egypt for generations. She earned... Read more |
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Henry Maitland Wilson 1st Baron Wilson
Henry Maitland Wilson Wilson, 1st Baron 1881-1964, British field marshal. He served in the South African War and World War I and in 1939 became commander of the British forces in Egypt. He led the ill-fated British expedition in Greece in 1941 and served as commander in chief in the Middle East... Read more |
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Ptolemy VII
Ptolemy VII (Ptolemy Physcon) , d. 116 BC, king of ancient Egypt (145-116 BC), of the Macedonian dynasty, brother of Ptolemy VI . He is also called Ptolemy Euergetes II. He was coruler with his brother and his brother's wife from 170-164 BC Trouble resulted in a settlement by which Ptolemy... Read more |
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Young British Artists
Young British Artists (YBAs). An imprecise term applied to a number of highly publicized British avant-garde artists active from the late 1980s, several of whom are well known for their grubbily glamorous lifestyles as well as for what they create; they do not form an organized group and their work... Read more |
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British Isles
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British Council
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British Raj
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British
British British Academy an institution founded in 1901 for the promotion of historical, philosophical, and philological studies.British Expeditionary Force a British force made available by the army reform of 1908 for service overseas. Such forces were sent to France in 1914, at the outbreak of the... Read more |
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra, a tragedy by Shakespeare, printed...by the beauty of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Recalled by the death of his wife...developments, he tears himself from Cleopatra and returns to Rome, where the estrangement... |
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Cleopatra
Cleopatra (69–30 bc) Queen of Egypt (51–30 bc...on Egypt in 31 bc, and defeated Antony and Cleopatra's forces at the Battle of Actium. Mark Antony committed suicide, and Cleopatra surrendered to Octavian but failed to win his... |
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Caesar and Cleopatra
Caesar and Cleopatra. Originally presented at the New Amsterdam Theatre in 1906 with Johnston...the play (in a program alternating with Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra) in 1951, and the title roles were essayed on Broadway by Rex Harrison... |
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Ashcroft, Dame Peggy
...always to be the perfect exponent, as well as Cleopatra in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. Much of her best work was done in conjunction...Avon, where she was later outstanding as Cleopatra to Michael Redgrave's Antony in 1953 and as... |
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Mirren, Helen
...Theatre led to her playing an extremely youthful Cleopatra, in Antony and Cleopatra, at the Old Vic in 1965. Two years later she...Theatre, and in 1983 for the RSC she again played Cleopatra. She was absent for several years in films before... |
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Antony, Mark
...Empire: Antony received Asia. He and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, became lovers. Cicero...Octavia, but Antony continued to live with Cleopatra in Alexandria and became isolated from...Battle of Actium (31 bc). Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide. |
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barge
...and for river processions. Such was Cleopatra's barge described by Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (Act II, sc. ii), which... like...faster,As amorous of their strokes ...Cleopatra's was probably carried a bit to extremes... |
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Charmian
Charmian, in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Dryden's All for Love, Cleopatra's chief waiting woman. |
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Miller, Gilbert (Heron)
...Tovarich (1936), Harriet (1943), Edward, My Son (1948), The Cocktail Party (1950), the 1951 Olivier‐Leigh double bill of Antony and Cleopatra and Caesar and Cleopatra, and Witness for the Prosecution (1954). |
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Hayes (Brown), Helen
...Elsie Beebe in To the Ladies (1922), and Catherine Westcourt in Dancing Mothers (1924). After playing Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra (1925) she appeared for the first time in what became her favorite part: Maggie Wylie in What Every Woman... |
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Cleopatra
Cleopatra (69–30 bc), queen of Egypt from...allowing herself to be bitten by an asp.Cleopatra's Needles a pair of granite obelisks...have no known historical connection with Cleopatra.Cleopatra's nose is taken as the type... |
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Cleopatra VII
Cleopatra VII (69–30 BC) The last of the PTOLEMIES. She became co-ruler...announced the division of ALEXANDER THE GREAT's former empire between Cleopatra and her children. In 32 Octavian (AUGUSTUS) declared war on her and... |
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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra. Opera in 3 acts by Barber to lib. by comp. and F. Zeffirelli based on Shakespeare's play (1606–7). Comp. 1966, rev. 1974. Prod. NY Met 1966 (opening night of new theatre in Lincoln Center, 16 Sept.). |
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Malfitano, Catherine
...Opera 1974–9. Eur. début 1974, Netherlands Opera. Salzburg Fest. début 1976; NY Met 1979; Vienna 1982; Munich 1985; CG 1988. Sang Cleopatra in revival of Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, Chicago 1991. A notable Salome. |
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Mark Antony
...the eastern Mediterranean and began (42) his liaison with Cleopatra. Although a powerful ally she cost him much support at Rome...was illegal in Roman law. In 34 he declared Caesarion ( Cleopatra's son allegedly by Caesar) as Caesar's heir in Octavian... |
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salad days
salad days the period when one is young and inexperienced, one's time of youth; originally as a quotation from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in the words of Cleopatra. |
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Price, (Mary Violet) Leontyne
...gave f.p. of his Prayers of Kierkegaard with Boston SO cond. Munch, 1954, and created Cleopatra in NY Met première of his Antony and Cleopatra, 1966). Last opera appearance was as Aida at NY Met, 3 Jan. 1985. |
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Ptolemy
...Syria, and finally with the Romans. The last of the line was Cleopatra VII, married to Mark Antony, who gave her his territory in...Augustus defeated their combined navies at Actium in Sept. 31 BCE Cleopatra committed suicide. |
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Barber, Samuel
...perf. at the NY Met in 1958 and another opera Antony and Cleopatra, to lib. by Zeffirelli, was commissioned for the opening of...1964); A Hand of Bridge, Op.35 (1959); Antony and Cleopatra, Op.40 (1966, rev. 1974).BALLETS: Medea, Op.23... |
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Alexandra
...Alhambra • Vanbrugh •Cassandra, Sandra •Aphra, Biafra •Niagara, pellagra, Viagra •bhangra, Ingres •Capra • Cleopatra •mantra, tantra, yantra •Basra •Asmara, Bukhara, carbonara, Carrara, cascara, Connemara, Damara, Ferrara, Gemara, Guadalajara... |
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Cleopatra: From History to Myth.(various artists, British Museum, London,...
CLEOPATRA ... `the most illustrious and wise of women...writing three centuries later, describes Cleopatra as `the last of the wise ones of Greece.' How have we come to see Cleopatra as the embodiment of unfettered passion and... |
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Cleopatra the eternal.(From Past to Present)
...two of Rome's most powerful leaders, Cleopatra radiated intelligence, political vision...architecture, literature, art, and film. Cleopatra was interested in science, the arts...grain that Egypt could offer Rome, but Cleopatra herself was no small part of the attraction... |
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Cleopatra's Life and Legend Explored in Multimedia Programming Event.
...historical legacy of Egypt's legendary queen Cleopatra will be the focus of a three-week long...Discovery Channel's worldwide premiere of Cleopatra's Palace: In Search of a Legend on...that lets them explore their world. Cleopatra's Legend On The Web The core of Discovery... |
 "Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)")
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Cleopatra: Egypt's Queen presented in a new light.
Summary: Cleopatra's two millennia old story has been...Schiff's enthralling biography, "Cleopatra a Life," has been a huge literary...acknowledges that little is known about Cleopatra and all the information about her is... |
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Cleopatra and Rome.(Book review)
Cleopatra and Rome, by Diana E. E. Kleiner...brief lifetime (69-30 B.C.), Cleopatra's relationships to Roman leaders and...illustrated book. The central thesis, that Cleopatra of Egypt--the epitome of a highly... |
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Cleopatra an enigmatic icon.(Mosaic)(Biography)
...most powerful leaders. Gradually, the Cleopatra of recorded fact has become an iconic...snake pit of power politics of her day. Cleopatra is a complex heroine--a lover as well...politician in very parlous times. When Cleopatra VII inherited the throne at the age of... |
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Cleopatra show unveils new archaeological treasures.
...of papyrus feature the handwriting of Cleopatra, the last Egyptian pharaoh whose legendary...of papyrus feature the handwriting of Cleopatra, the last Egyptian pharaoh whose legendary...lost tomb. Some of the items in "Cleopatra -- the Search for the Last Queen of... |
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Cleopatra's make-over: cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallett considers how...
MY BOOK ON CLEOPATRA was first published in 1990. Since...world in the past two decades. First, Cleopatra became an African. When writing about...nineteenth-century orientalist images of Cleopatra in my book, I drew on the work of the... |
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Cleopatra on Nandonik stage
...Nandonik Natyo Shamprodai brought Cleopatra composed by Raahman Chowdhury as its...and historians have been enchanted by Cleopatra (69 BC - 30 BC), Queen of Egypt...historical character Raahman Chowdhury's Cleopatra is a new addition. Cleopatra by Raahman... |
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Cleopatra Egypt's last Queen: she was young, bold, and beautiful. But could...
...18, and a woman in a man's world, Cleopatra was determined to make her kingdom great...SCENE 1 Narrator A: Born in 69 B.C., Cleopatra is the daughter of Egypt's King Ptolemy...time. When Ptolemy dies in 51 B.C., Cleopatra takes the throne with her brother, Ptolemy... |
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