num_pages: 144
description: Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.
language: English
title: Caesar and Cleopatra : A History
titlecomplete: Caesar and Cleopatra : A History
characters: Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Cleopatra, Belzanor, Rufio
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Historical, Drama, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Irish Literature, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1943
places: Egypt, Alexandria, Library of Alexandria, Alexandria
publisher: Penguin Books