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This queen of Egypt was permanently dethroned by poisonous snakes hidden in a fig basket:TACO PEARL |
Cleopatra
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$300 |
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MIXED-UP SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS |
2025-04-16 |
#38 |
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Her first line to Antony is "If it be love indeed, tell me how much" |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
2025-01-01 |
#9238 |
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"O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!" |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
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THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE |
2023-01-12 |
#8784 |
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This title character declares, "He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt" |
Cleopatra
DD
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$2,500 |
J |
LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE ACT |
2022-02-25 |
#8585 |
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"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me", declares this character before taking her own life |
Cleopatra
DD
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$1,000 |
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'TIS SHAKESPEARE |
2021-07-01 |
#8434 |
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Shakespeare is guilty of an anachronism when this ancient queen says to an attendant, let's play billiards |
Cleopatra
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$800 |
J |
SPORTS & GAMES IN SHAKESPEARE |
2021-03-09 |
#8352 |
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Her barge "like a burnished throne, burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold" |
Cleopatra
DD
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$5,000 |
DJ |
QUOTES FROM SHAKESPEARE |
2015-05-13 |
#7068 |
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In 1965, at age 20, Helen Mirren played this Egyptian at the Old Vic |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS |
2014-07-08 |
#6877 |
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"As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle--O Antony!--nay I will take thee too |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS' DYING WORDS |
2011-06-20 |
#6176 |
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One of the last things that she says before dying: "O Antony!" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN |
2010-02-02 |
#5847 |
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Agrippa says of her, "Royal wench! She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
J |
BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE |
2008-06-25 |
#5493 |
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This title queen uses an asp, a "poor venomous fool", to kill herself |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
2007-10-18 |
#5314 |
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She's a foreign queen:ALERT A COP |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
DJ |
ANAGRAMMED SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
2007-09-27 |
#5299 |
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Her lover called her "my serpent of old Nile" |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S KINGS & QUEENS |
2004-10-07 |
#4619 |
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She makes her first entrance with "Her ladies, the train, with eunuchs fanning her" |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
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SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN |
2003-11-10 |
#4411 |
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An anaconda squeezing her to death in Act V wouldn't work, so will used an asp instead |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
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WILL SHAKESPEARE, SERIAL KILLER |
2001-07-17 |
#3902 |
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If you want to impress a guy like Mark Antony, barge in on a barge, like this queen |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
WE LEARNED IT FROM SHAKESPEARE |
2001-02-07 |
#3788 |
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Agrippa says of her, "Royal wench! She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
2001-01-30 |
#3782 |
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Hard to imagine, but in Shakespeare's time, this queen of Egypt, like other female roles, was played by a boy |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
DJ |
UH-OH! SHAKESPEARE! |
2000-12-29 |
#3760 |
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"O Antony! Nay, I will take thee too...what, should I stay--" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN DYING WORDS |
2000-03-01 |
#3573 |
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Helen Mirren was only about 20 when she played this Egyptian at the Old Vic in 1965 |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS |
2000-01-14 |
#3540 |
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This queen likes to play billiards when she's not playing around with Antony |
Cleopatra
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$600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1997-11-07 |
#3035 |
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One of this heroine's last lines is "Poor venomous fool, be angry, and dispatch" |
Cleopatra
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FJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1997-07-10 |
#2979 |
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Her dying words are "O Antony, nay I will take thee to; what, should I stay?" |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1996-07-16 |
#2752 |
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She's Mark Antony's "Egyptian dish" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1995-10-20 |
#2560 |
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After this queen dies, her attendant Charmian also kills herself with an asp |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1995-09-18 |
#2536 |
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Enobarbus says Antony won't leave her because "Age cannot wither her, not custom stale her infinite variety" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1995-03-14 |
#2432 |
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The queen who says, "Go tell him I have slain myself; say that the last I spoke was 'Antony'" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1995-02-16 |
#2414 |
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Antony calls her "My Serpent of Old Nile" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1994-03-30 |
#2213 |
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When Tallulah Bankhead played this queen, one critic said she "barged down the Nile...and sank" |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1993-11-12 |
#2115 |
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The sails of her barge were "so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them" |
Cleopatra
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$600 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1993-07-13 |
#2057 |
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A simple countryman delivers a basket of figs to this queen of Egypt, she dies soon after |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1993-05-06 |
#2009 |
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"The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, burned on the water" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS |
1992-12-01 |
#1897 |
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Mark Antony called her Egypt |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1991-03-14 |
#1514 |
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When this title character first appears, eunuchs are fanning her |
Cleopatra
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$100 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN SERVANTS |
1991-01-10 |
#1469 |
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In 1937 one critic said Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile as this character and sank |
Cleopatra
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$100 |
J |
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS |
1990-12-28 |
#1460 |
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Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen |
Cleopatra
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FJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1990-02-09 |
#1260 |
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The only African queen who appears in the title of a Shakespearean play |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
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SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA |
1989-12-04 |
#1211 |
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According to Shakespeare, this queen liked to play billiards with her eunuch |
Cleopatra
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$100 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1988-12-22 |
#994 |
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Shakespeare wrote of her, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety" |
Cleopatra
DD
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$1,200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA |
1988-09-29 |
#934 |
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She said, "O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too; What should I stay--" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN LAST LINES |
1987-12-23 |
#763 |
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"The barge she sat in, like a burnisht throne burned on the water..." |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S LOVERS |
1987-06-23 |
#662 |
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She said, "The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch" no doubt "asp"irating the "pinch" |
Cleopatra
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$400 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEAREAN TRIVIA |
1987-04-06 |
#606 |
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"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety," Shakespeare wrote of her |
Cleopatra
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$800 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1986-09-15 |
#461 |
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“Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies” |
Cleopatra
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$300 |
J |
SHAKESPEARE |
1985-11-13 |
#308 |
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Shakespeare said even the sails of her barge were perfumed |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN |
1985-10-30 |
#298 |
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Shakespeare described her as Antony's "Egyptian dish" |
Cleopatra
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$200 |
DJ |
SHAKESPEARE |
1985-04-30 |
#167 |