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Caesar and Cleopatra

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noun

  1. a comedy (1898) by G. B. Shaw.


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He played Brutus, Hamlet, Henry V and Macbeth at the Birmingham Rep, and in 1956 made his London debut in the Old Vic’s production of Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019

Caesar and Cleopatra Vivien Leigh stars as the seductive Egyptian queen with a brilliant mind, opposite Claude Rains as Julius Caesar in this 1945 classic based on a George Bernard Shaw play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2015

Performers dressed as Julius Caesar and Cleopatra — gold-plated armor for him, a towering feathered crown for her — created a similar spectacle at the stadium last year.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2013

He was just 12 when he appeared in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra at the Gate.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2013

It is no wonder that Caesar and Cleopatra were drawn to each other.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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