Dec 22, 2009

Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar and Cleopatra

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Author: George Bernard Shaw
First Published: 1901
Type of Work: Drama
Type of Plot: Comedy
Time of Work: October, 48 b.c.e., to March, 47 b.c.e.
Genres: Drama, Problem play, Comedy
Subjects: Love or romance, Kings, queens, or royalty, Egypt or Egyptians, Disasters, Natural disasters, Fire, Civil wars, Heads of state
Locales: Egypt, ancient, Alexandria, Egypt

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*Egypt. North African country in which all the play’s action takes place. When Caesar led his Roman troops there in pursuit of his enemy Pompey, he got involved in a power struggle between Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra and her brother and nominal coregent, Ptolemy. Caesar took Cleopatra’s side, and this civil war forms a secondary conflict in Shaw’s play.

*Alexandria. Egypt’s capital city, in which the play’s second through fourth acts are set during the six- month period when Ptolemy’s forces were besieging Caesar and Cleopatra. In the play,...

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Caesar and Cleopatra | Caesar and Cleopatra

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