Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra: A Life (Little, Brown and Co.), seeks to restore some context to a woman who still beguiles us, 2,000 years after Elizabeth Taylor's death.

Duane Roller

In Cleopatra, Duane Roller has written the definitive biography of the queen, not as a figure in popular culture or even in the arts and literature of the last five hundred years, but as the last Greek queen of Egypt.

Plutarch

The earliest version of Cleopatra’s life was written by Plutarch in around 100 CE in many great Romans's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, which contains the most accurate and complete accounts.

Harold Bloom

From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters.

with noted author Diane Stanley's husband Peter Vennema

Written by noted author Diane Stanley with noted author Diane Stanley's husband Peter Vennema, Cleopatra is an outstanding biography of a fascinating woman and leader who lived from 69 – 30 B.C. in Egypt.

Jeffrey K. Gardner

Cleopatra is a novel written by Jeffrey K. Gardner, first published in 1962.

by noted author Diane Stanley

Written by noted author Diane Stanley with noted author Diane Stanley's husband Peter Vennema, Cleopatra is an outstanding biography of a fascinating woman and leader who lived from 69 – 30 B.C. in Egypt.

by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald Macdougall, Sidney Buchman, Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, Carlo Maria Franzero and Ben Hecht

Cleopatra is a 1963 English-language Biography Drama movie written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald Macdougall, Sidney Buchman, Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, Carlo Maria Franzero and Ben Hecht.

Carlo Maria Franzero

Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian.

Seitzman

Written by Seitzman, Cleopatra is described as an epic, female-centric adventure series following the life of the most beloved ruler in Egyptian history.

Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov's fourth book''

(Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov's fourth book, 'Cleopatra: A Life,' was a top national bestseller, one of The New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2010 and winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography. '

by Gareth Cadwallader

Written by Gareth Cadwallader, Cleopatra takes a somewhat voyeuristic approach to following the great Egyptian Pharaoh as the great Egyptian Pharaoh eagerly awaits for the Roman Senate to pass the required law to allow the great Egyptian Pharaoh to marry Julius Caesar, and passes the time seducing Caesar’s Head of Security Marc Antony.

Thomas North

The plot is based on Thomas North's 1579 English translation of Plutarch's Lives (in Ancient Greek) and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic.

by Waldemar Young and Vincent Lawrence

Written by Waldemar Young and Vincent Lawrence, based off historical material by long-time DeMille associate Bartlett Cormack, Cleopatra sets up its political climate quickly, introduces its political climate's cast with little fanfare, and sets about parlaying the production’s expansive (and admittedly impressive) sets into an engaging, if somewhat stilted, dramatic narrative.

and Robert Benton

Cleopatra was written by David Newman and Robert Benton, their first script after Bonnie and Clyde.

by playwright William Shakespeare

Cleopatra's life has been dramatized by playwright William Shakespeare and portrayed in film by Elizabeth Taylor.

by David Newman

Cleopatra was written by David Newman and Robert Benton, their first script after Bonnie and Clyde.

Joseph Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra

If Ben-Hur was the pinnacle of the historical epic, then Joseph Mankiewicz’s Cleopatra marked the beginning of the end.

by William Shakespeare

The story of Cleopatra's eventful life was also told by William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra (1607), which has remained a popular play through the ages.

Chaucer

Chaucer decided, further, that the tales should relate to women famous in love-stories, and began by writing the tale of Cleopatra, which is specially mentioned in B. 566 (and A. 542)[16].