Bernard Shaw
Caesar and Cleopatra
eBook
( July 3, 2013)
This book is an illustrated version of the original Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw. Caesar meets the young Cleopatracrouching at night between the paws of a sphinx, where—having been driven from Alexandria—she is hiding. He returns her to the palace, reveals his identity, and compels her to abandon her girlishness and accept her position as coruler of Egypt (with Ptolemy Dionysus, her brother). Caesar and Cleopatra was extraordinarily successful, largely because of Shaw’s talent for characterization.