Bard College classicist James Romm, author of memorably good books such as Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight ...

When he came to work up the story of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare had achieved an understanding of, and confidence in, his poetic function sufficient to allow him to assert the dramatic truth of ...

[amazon 030016534X full] Adrian Goldsworthy, Antony and Cleopatra (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010), 480 pp., $35.00. CLEOPATRA VII—“the Female Horus,” “the Great One,” “the Mistress of ...

In a response to my February 20 column on the American Yiddish verb mufn, in which I said, “You won’t, of course, find *mufn *in any Yiddish dictionary,” Solon Beinfeld of Cambridge, Mass., writes: I ...

The Translation called Dryden’s. Corrected from the Greek, and Revised, by A. H. CLOUGH, sometime Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College, Oxford, and late Professor of the English Language and Literature ...