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Emerging highlights from across the festival landscape

Joanna Biggs’ A Life of One’s Own looks to the letters and journals of literary women for guidance. Can they teach us how to live?

Gilded Balloon’s last batch of shows for this August’s Fringe Festival have been released for sale and we are thrilled to announce that we have over 170 shows now on sale for Fringe 2023.

Antony and Cleopatra, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1606–07 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an authorial draft in a more finished state than most of his working papers or possibly from a transcript of those papers not yet prepared as a playbook. It is considered one of Shakespeare’s richest and most moving works. The principal source of the play was Sir Thomas North’s Parallel Lives (1579), an English version of Plutarch’s Bioi parallēloi. The st...

The vast majority of Egypt’s many hundreds of queens, although famed throughout their own land, were more or less unknown in the outside world. As the dynastic age ended and the hieroglyphic script was lost, the queens’ stories were forgotten and their monuments buried under Egypt’s sands. But Cleopatra had lived in a highly literate age, and her actions had influenced the formation of the Roman Empire; her story could not be forgotten. Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) was determined...

Edinburgh Fringe adds 1,596 new shows - Programme swells to almost 3,000

As a writer, it often feels as though you are tasked with creating something out of nothing. To build a world into which a reader can escape

Books, series and movies have updated the alienated archetype of ‘Jane Eyre’ to rage against power imbalances and the frustrations caused by marriage

No longer frowned upon, making a reservation for yourself and enjoying a good meal in solitude is gaining popularity, as well as a recipe for receiving the royal treatment

Born in Boeotia, educated in Athens, and made a priest at Delphi, Plutarch wrote, according to an index supposedly compiled by one of his sons, 227 works, among them Parallel Lives—a source for a few of William Shakespeare’s plays—and the Morals, which includes the essays “On Exile” and “How to Distinguish a Flatterer from a Friend.”