LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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a tragedy by Shskespeare
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a play By G. B. Shaw
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a poem by Lord Byron
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a novel by S. T. Coleridge
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Detailed explanation-1: -Caesar and Cleopatra, four-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1898, published in 1901, and first produced in 1906. It is considered Shaw’s first great play. Caesar and Cleopatra opens as Caesar’s armies arrive in Egypt to conquer the ancient divided land for Rome.
Detailed explanation-2: -Caesar and Cleopatra revolves round a central theme-the wickedness and futility of revenge. Caesar appears as a gentle colossus whose clemency, benevolence and magnanimity overwhelm and overawe the lesser mortals.
Detailed explanation-3: -Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was first performed, by the King’s Men, at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre in around 1607; its first appearance in print was in the Folio of 1623.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although Edith Evans was indisputably a great actress in many of her roles, Cleopatra, performed in 1925-6 and again in 1946, was not one of her best.