Caesar and Cleopatra

With an introduction, notes and questions by Betty Bealey; additional notes by A.C. WardThe cover is a reproduction of the portrait of Shaw by Augustus John, by permission of the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The photograph of Shaw on the left front endpaper is by Harold Coster; the photograph of Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains on the right front endpaper is reproduced by permission of The Rank Organization.The photograph of the Banquet scene from the 1951 stage production of Caesar and Cleopatra and the photograph of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in the 1951 stage production, both on the back endpapers, are reproduced by permission of Angus McBean Ltd.Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.