Caesar Monologue from Caesar and Cleopatra

From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw

male · anguished · 52 sec

You have taken the powers of life and death upon you. I am only a dreamer. (CLEOPATRA: But they will kill me.) And why not? (CLEOPATRA: In pity----) Pity! What! Has it come to this so suddenly, that nothing can save you now but pity? Did it save Pothinus? She rises, wringing her hands, and goes back to the bench in despair. Apollodorus shews his sympathy with her by quietly posting himself behind the bench. The sky has by this time become the most vivid purple, and soon begins to change to a glowing pale orange, against which the colonnade and the great image shew darklier and darklier.

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