![]() Caesar understands the importance of good government, and values these things above art and love. He sees the Roman occupation of ancient Egypt as similar to the British occupation that was occurring during his time. ![]() Shaw wants to prove that it was not love but politics that drew Cleopatra to Julius Caesar. As they were so ye are and yet not so great for the pyramids my people built stand to this day whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons’ bodies on them to make yet more dust. London production was at the Savoy Theatre in 1907. It was first performed at Newcastle upon Tyne on March 15, 1899. ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert Caesar and CleopatraĬaesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in his 1901 collection, Three Plays for Puritans. ![]()
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