“My way hither was the way of destiny; for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part God — nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx?”

— George Bernard Shaw

Act I
1890s, Caesar and Cleopatra (1898)

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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