However, she is still very afraid of Caesar. Cleopatra is getting a taste and is already dreaming of how she will “feed” her slaves with poison and throw them on the Nile to be torn to pieces by crocodiles. Caesar teaches her to behave royally, to command and force herself to obey. She is afraid to give orders to the slave, trembles before her nanny Ftatatita. Then they furtively make their way through the desert to the palace.Ĭleopatra is extremely timid in the palace. Cleopatra promises to become his slave and obey him in everything.
Caesar admits that he is a Roman, and says that if a girl does everything as he says, Caesar will not offend her. She wakes up, says that she is the queen of Egypt, and invites Caesar, whom she calls the "old man", to climb into her and also hide from the Romans. They can’t find her anywhere.Īt this time, Julius Caesar, alone, in the desert passes by a small copy of the Sphinx and sees Cleopatra sleeping on the chest of a stone statue.
Queen Cleopatra, a sixteen-year-old girl, disappeared. The events of the play take place in Egypt, in the city of Alexandria, at the end of the reign of the XIII dynasty, in 48 BC.
British literature summaries - Short summary - Caesar and Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw
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