Richard III, a usurper brilliant in his undisguised cynicism, sweeps away everything in his path in an effort to achieve the English crown... Mark Antony and his beloved, the beautiful Egyptian queen Cleopatra, enter into a game that is impossible to win, trying to resist the full power of imperial Rome ...This book includes two of Shakespeare's historical tragedies, dedicated to the thirst for power - power that forces a person to take insane risks and commit monstrous crimes, but in the end turns him into a helpless toy of inexorable fate. And although history has proven that in reality everything was completely different, the immortal fantasies of the bard still remain much more convincing than the historical truth.