Caesar and Cleopatra (Penguin Classics)
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Book details
- Author
- George Bernard Shaw
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Mass market
- Language
- English
- Category
- British & Irish
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780143039778
- ISBN-10
- 0143039776
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Caesar and Cleopatra (Penguin Classics)
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ISBN: 0143039776
Author: Shaw, George Bernard
Condition: New
Exclusive to Penguin Classics: the definitive text of one of Shakespeares most affecting plays-part of the official Bernard Shaw LibraryA Penguin ClassicIn a cheeky nod to Shakespeares towering reputation, Shaw reinvents two of his historical characters but sets his own play in a period predating both Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. Shaws Cleopatra is a kittenish girl with a streak of cruelty, while his Caesar is a world-weary philosopher-soldier who is as much a stranger in Rome as in the barbaric court of Egypt. With wit, irony, and an undertone of melancholy, Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeares use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaws own time.This is the definitive text prepared under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence. The volume includes Shaws preface of 1900.
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