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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 story concerns Mark Antony, Roman military leader and triumvir, who is besottedly in love with Cleopat...

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 that Roman history should be recorded in a way that confirmed his right to rule. To achieve this, h...