Shaw Bernard. Caesar and Cleopatra

Caesar and Cleopatra, a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw, was first staged in 1901 and first published with Captain Brassbound's Conversion and The Devil's Disciple in his 1901 collection, Three Plays for Puritans. It was first performed at Newcastle-on-Tyne on March 15, 1899. The first London production was at the Savoy Theatre in 1907."PrologueIn the doorway of the temple of Ra in Memphis. Deep gloom. An august
personage with a hawk's head is mysteriously visible by his own light in
the darkness within the temple. He surveys the modern audience with
great contempt; and finally speaks the following words to them."