Caesar and Cleopatra

By Shaw, George Bernard

Book Id: WPLBN0000674921
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Caesar and Cleopatra
Author:	Shaw, George Bernard
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Bernard Shaw, B. G. (n.d.). Caesar and Cleopatra. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
Excerpt: ACT I. An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you would not guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers.