Who wrote the play Caesar and Cleopatra, first published in 1901?

Who wrote the play Caesar and Cleopatra, first published in 1901? George Bernard Shaw wrote it.

George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra is a historical drama written in 1898 and first published in 1901 as part of Three Plays for Puritans. The play fictionalizes the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, using ancient Egypt and Rome as a setting for Shaw’s ideas about leadership, empire, education, and political power.

Shaw based much of the historical framework on Theodor Mommsen’s History of Rome. His Caesar is an urbane, rational statesman rather than the romantic hero familiar from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. Shaw also deliberately made Cleopatra sixteen when she meets Caesar, a historically inaccurate choice intended to minimize the suggestion of a sexual relationship and emphasize her political education.

The work was first performed as a copyright-protecting staged reading in Newcastle upon Tyne on 15 March 1899. Its first full staging came later in New York in 1906, followed by a London production in 1907. It is often confused with Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, but that is a separate play centered on Cleopatra’s later relationship with Mark Antony.