Caesar and Cleopatra: A HistoryPenguin Books, 1950 - 144 Seiten "Caesar and Cleopatra" satirizes Shakespeares use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaws own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays. |
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... tell in this world , the difficulty is not to make him tell it , but to pre- vent him from telling it too often . Let me celebrate my birthday by setting you free . Farewell : we shall not meet again . CLEOPATRA [ angrily ] Cæsar : this ...
... tell in this world , the difficulty is not to make him tell it , but to pre- vent him from telling it too often . Let me celebrate my birthday by setting you free . Farewell : we shall not meet again . CLEOPATRA [ angrily ] Cæsar : this ...
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A History Bernard Shaw. turns from servitude ? To tell me such a story as this is but to tell me that the sun will rise tomorrow . CLEOPATRA [ unable to contain herself ] But it is false- false . I swear it . CÆSAR . It is true , though ...
A History Bernard Shaw. turns from servitude ? To tell me such a story as this is but to tell me that the sun will rise tomorrow . CLEOPATRA [ unable to contain herself ] But it is false- false . I swear it . CÆSAR . It is true , though ...
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... tell a lie which everybody knows to be a lie ( and consequently expects him as a matter of good taste to tell . ) His lies are not found out : they pass for can- dors . He understands the paradox of money , and gives it away when he can ...
... tell a lie which everybody knows to be a lie ( and consequently expects him as a matter of good taste to tell . ) His lies are not found out : they pass for can- dors . He understands the paradox of money , and gives it away when he can ...
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PROLOGUE | 7 |
AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PROLOGUE | 13 |
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA | 25 |
Urheberrecht | |
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