Penguin Classics Caesar and Cleopatra, (Paperback)

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This was a great play, rife with action and drama, by Shaw. He manages to reach for complex themes and deep character development, primarily of Caesar and Cleopatra but also of the surrounding characters which populate this play. So much was done in such a short space of time and the dialogue had...

from AliceAnna

Shaw presents us with truly human characters, a Caesar with strength, wisdom, humanity and a little vanity. A Cleopatra who acts her age -- unsure and frightened and superstitious as she surely must have been in the presence of the Romans.

from jonfaith

Lovely play but I was at a loss to imagine a successful staging. This is vast and epic while insistently self aware, emplacing it's own sense of history upon a lineage we believe to know from another play by that one guy.The characterization of Cleopatra as a petulant teen was remarkable-especial...

from Stbalbach

Review of two audio recordings: BBC 1980 and Caedmon 1965. The former is a studio production, and the later a recorded stage performance. The Caedmon performance is better due to a veteran stage production, and Claire Bloom as Cleopatra. This is a grand story that follows well known historical ev...

from jonfaith

Lovely play but I was at a loss to imagine a successful staging. This is vast and epic while insistently self aware, emplacing it's own sense of history upon a lineage we believe to know from another play by that one guy.The characterization of Cleopatra as a petulant teen was remarkable-especial...