Caesar and Cleopatra; Bernard Shaw Books
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Caesar and Cleopatra; Bernard Shaw Books
I have no pretensions to expertise on Shaw, but I found this a bit lightweight. His notes at the end shed more light on his intentions than I found for myself in reading the play. I had already seen the 1945 movie version, which was very faithful to the play - to be expected as Shaw wrote the script for the movie as well. In short, whilst I'd certainly be up for seeing a staged performance of this, I find greater fulfilment in Shakespeare's dramatisation of Roman history.Product details
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Caesar and Cleopatra; Bernard Shaw Books Reviews
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Shaw seems to have enjoyed writing this version of the Roman conquest of Egypt in 48BC. He has the general, Julius Caesar encounter the girl queen Cleopatra at the foot of the Syphinx. Still a child, Cleo is portrayed as an irrepressible kitten who become a formidable empress. Shaw's stage directions alone are worth reading.
Clearly self explanatory a historical piece
Good book
Shaw seems to have taken too much liberty with the history. Good advocacy of Cesar who became death for countless people for his own personal glory. For a play, the story and narrative are good, but doubt if anything like he has depicted here could have ever happened.
When I was young, I remember, I saw this play on televisions with Rex Harrison as Caesar. It was wonderful. I never thought of reading it until recently. I loved it even more in print.
I first read this play almost fifty years ago. I wanted to study it once again and this was the cheapest edition. BUT there is a wonderful prologue to the play that often is not performed. It is a fantastic piece of writing. a long monologue spoken directly to the audience by an Egyptian god explaining the events that lead to the play. THis edition deletes that prologue. Now I have to get another edition and carefully check if I am going to get the entire play.
Don't be penny smart and pound foolish. I don't know which edition is complete. This one isn't. When I was in junior high school, I had the Penguin edition. I don't know if they still publish it. I will look. Beware!
I have no pretensions to expertise on Shaw, but I found this a bit lightweight. His notes at the end shed more light on his intentions than I found for myself in reading the play. I had already seen the 1945 movie version, which was very faithful to the play - to be expected as Shaw wrote the script for the movie as well. In short, whilst I'd certainly be up for seeing a staged performance of this, I find greater fulfilment in Shakespeare's dramatisation of Roman history.
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