ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with Captain Brassbound’s Conversion and The Devil’s Disciple in Shaw’s 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923).

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -George Bernard Shaw is famous for his role in revolutionizing comedic drama. He was also a literary critic and a prominent British socialist. Shaw’s most financially successful work, Pygmalion, was adapted into the popular Broadway musical My Fair Lady. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.