Cleopatra Monologue from Caesar and Cleopatra

From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 46 sec

Won't you cut their heads off? (CAESAR: What! Cut off your brother's head?) Why not? He would cut off mine, if he got the chance. Wouldn't you, Ptolemy? PTOLEMY (pale and obstinate). I would. I will, too, when I grow up. Cleopatra is rent by a struggle between her newly-acquired dignity as a queen, and a strong impulse to put out her tongue at him. She takes no part in the scene which follows, but watches it with curiosity and wonder, fidgeting with the restlessness of a child, and sitting down on Caesar's tripod when he rises.

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