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The play has two layers. The first one deals with the fact that Shaw wanted to prove that it wasn't love but politics making Cleopatra drawn to Julius Caesar . In his play, Shaw stresses the relations between the Roman and Egyptian conquerors. A film version was produced by Gabriel Pascal in 1945 , starring Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh . At the time it was rumoured to be the most expensive film made in Britain . |
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