Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar and Cleopatra

Title: Caesar and Cleopatra
Author: Bernard Shaw
Release: 2015-02-04
Kind: ebook
Genre: Fiction & Literature, Books
Size: 1088655
The play has a prologue and an "Alternative to the Prologue". The prologue consists of the Egyptian god Ra addressing the audience directly, as if he could see them in the theater.

He says that Pompey represents the old Rome and Caesar represents the new Rome. The gods favored Caesar, according to Ra, because he "lived the life they had given him boldly.

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