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Caesar and Cleopatra
Shaw portrays the sixteen-year-old Egyptian queen meeting the Roman conqueror, deliberately avoiding romantic overtones to focus on political themes and parallels with British imperialism.
"Caesar and Cleopatra" by Bernard Shaw is a play. Shaw portrays the sixteen-year-old Egyptian queen meeting the Roman conqueror, deliberately avoiding romantic overtones to focus on political themes and parallels with British imperialism.
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Alexandria. A hall on the first floor of the Palace, ending in a loggia approached by two steps. Through the arches of the loggia the Mediterranean can be seen, bright in the morning sun. The clean lofty walls, painted with a procession of the Egyptian theocracy, presented in profile as flat ornament, and the absence of mirrors, sham perspectives, stuffy upholstery and textiles, make the place handsome, wholesome, simple and cool, or, as a rich English manufacturer would express it, poor, bare, ridiculous and unhomely. For Tottenham Court Road civilization is to this Egyptian civilization as glass bead and tattoo civilization is to Tottenham Court Road.
Contents
- 01Act I
- 02Act II
- 03Act III
- 04Act IV
- 05Act V
- 06Notes to Caesar and Cleopatra
- 07Cleopatra’s Cure for Baldness
- 08Apparent Anachronisms
- 09Cleopatra
- 10Britannus
- 11Julius Caesar
About this edition
- Author
- Bernard Shaw
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 125 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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