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A Shakespeare Story: Antony and Cleopatra

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A Shakespeare Story: Antony and Cleopatra by Andrew Matthews, and Tony Ross

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By Andrew Matthews, and and, Tony Ross

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A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare’s thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe theatre and Love and Death in Anthony and Cleopatra. The tales have been retold using accessible language and with the help of Tony Ross’s engaging black-and-white illustrations, each play is vividly brought to life allowing these culturally enriching stories to be shared with as wide an audience as possible.

Have you read all of The Shakespeare Stories books? Available in this series: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III, and King Lear.

Reviews

28 Dec 2024

My favourite character is Antony because he’s the main character and is in love with Cleopatra. He is strong and goes to war. It’s sad at the end when he and Cleopatra both die. Yea I would recommend this book.

02 Sep 2024

Loved it!

26 Aug 2024

Great 😌

27 Jul 2024

it was quite good but a bit too short but overall i liked it

18 Jul 2024

i like reading history books because my sister sits with me and talks about Shakespeare, the stories are very interesting

08 Feb 2024

This is an interesting story of ancient romans and egyptians, and what happened when Antony (in command of the Romans) decided to marry Cleopatra (Queen of Egypt) and moves with her to Egypt. There is a fair amount of drama. I would recommend it!

27 Jan 2024

It was good. I liked it because it was in the olden days

07 Dec 2023

it is a nonfiction book.

22 Sep 2023

it's a fiction. I feel like I don't know wish covered I can do. I really like Shakespeare's books. I'll recommend that people love this but if they love plays.

06 Sep 2023

When Julia’s Caesar was killed,Anthony became the Emperor and Cleopatra came on a boat and fell in love and died together.

03 Sep 2023

This book is a fiction . When I first read it made me felt I was apart of the beatiful sad story . It was really intresting that more people should read it

02 Sep 2023

I like the kids version

29 Aug 2023

this book was interesting and i recommend this book

13 Aug 2023

The book is about Antony, a ruler in Rome, and Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt. Antony was a courageous soldier, while Queen Cleopatra was beautiful and stubborn. He loved her and left Rome to live in Egypt with Queen Cleopatra. They had some beautiful children together.
To keep the Romas united, Antony was forced to marry the sister of Octavius. It was a fake marriage. Antony went to war against the Roman fleet, and thanks to Cleopatra, he lost. He later died in Cleopatra’s arms. He gave up everything he had for Cleopatra. After Antony died, Octavius offers Cleopatra peace but she chose to die because she can not live without Antony.

I would not recommend the book because I do not like the way Cleopatra and Antony died.

11 Aug 2023

it is a very good book

04 Aug 2023

I liked it but it was a bit sad. I would recommend this book for ages 9+.

31 Jul 2023

Antony becomes in love with Cleopatra. Then kills himself

31 Jul 2023

It has too strong love in it

19 Jul 2023

Only a little bit good I’m not really saying it is the best but I still love it and how Mark Antony dies for Cleopatra it’s like Romeo and Juliet It is only not really interesting than Romeo and Juliet but It not just about Romeo and Juliet it is about the book both have the same ending.

07 Jul 2023

It interested me learning about Ancient Egypt and the Romans and I would recommend it.

07 Jul 2023

I really liked Cleopatra she looks really pretty and liked learning about her. I like how her robes are made out of silk gold.

17 Feb 2023

I think the book was sad, because Antony and Cleopatra died and they are the main protagonist in the book .Favorite person was Antony, who was the main protagonist. I would recommend it to someone else. It was a factual book.

12 Sep 2022

I like Cleopatra the book is fiction

05 Sep 2022

it was a story about a princess and a boy and it was a bit confusing to me but I liked it.

31 Aug 2022

A great child-friendly version of a Shakespeare classic! I can see this being a great resource for school in both English (for it's literary devices) and in Humanities. I would recommend this book to anyone who is teaching Shakespeare in Primary.

09 Aug 2022

I liked this book because it was an interresting story.

28 Jul 2022

Antony and Cleopatra is a war/Romantic story. It contains some war and fighting that leads to finding true love like two peas in a pod. Antony is a very important person to the roman citizens . Now Cleopatra was a very important person to the Egyptian citizens and their love was so strong that if one died so would the other.

14 Jul 2022

I found it quite sad because in the end Cleopatra kills her self to show how much she loves Antony

13 Jul 2022

I like this book because it envolves historical times and also the friendship between Cleopatra and Antony

06 Jul 2022

Amazing follow on from Julius Caesar

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