Caesar in Egypt is a 1724 tragedy by the British writer Colley Cibber. It is inspired by Pierre Corneille's 1642 French play The Death of Pompey about Julius Caesar's intervention in the Egyptian Civil War between Cleopatra and her brother. Cibber also incorporated elements of Plutarch and John Fletcher's The False One.[2] The Drury Lane company invested lots of resources to make it a particularly extravagant production in the traditional style of a Restoration heroic drama.[3]
The cast included Barton Booth as Julius Caesar, Robert Wilks as Antony, Theophilus Cibber as Ptolemy, Charles Williams as Decius, John Mills as Photinus, Colley Cibber as Achoreus, John Roberts as First Centurion, John Thurmond as Second Centurion, Mary Porter as Cornelia and Anne Oldfield as Cleopatra.
The play was not well-received, its style increasingly regarded by audiences as old-fashioned. This effectively ended Cibber's career as a playwright.[4]
nicknamed Caesarion (Greek: Καισαρίων, Kaisaríōn, "Little Caesar"), was the last pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, reigning with his mother Cleopatra VII from 2 September...
CaesarinEgypt is a 1724 tragedy by the British writer Colley Cibber. It is inspired by Pierre Corneille's 1642 French play The Death of Pompey about...
Giulio Cesare in Egitto ("Julius CaesarinEgypt") and George Bernard Shaw's play Caesar and Cleopatra, and was played by Richard O'Sullivan in the 1963 motion...
Pharsalus in Greece against his rival Julius Caesar (a Roman dictator and consul) inCaesar's civil war, the Roman statesman Pompey fled to Egypt. Pompey...
member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently...
of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome where the senators stabbed Caesar 23 times. They claimed to be acting over fears that Caesar's unprecedented concentration...
Roman-dominated kingdom. While Caesar was away inEgypt, Antony remained in Rome to govern Italy and restore order. Without Caesar to guide him, however, Antony...
defeat upon the Egyptians. Arsinoë, now in Roman captivity, was transported to Rome, where in 46 BC she was forced to appear inCaesar's triumph and was...
Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, and Octavian was named inCaesar's will as his adopted son and heir; as a result, he inherited Caesar's name,...
Octavian, who would later be Emperor Augustus Caesar) that Egypt became a province of the Roman Republic in 30 BC. Subsequent Roman emperors were accorded...
during Caesar's Civil War up to the siege of Alexandria (48–47 BC) in violent battles. In 58 BC, Pharaoh Ptolemy XII "Auletes" had to leave Egypt and went...
estates in Italy. Cornelia appears in George Frideric Handel's 1724 opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto ("Julius CaesarinEgypt"), where she pleads with Caesar to...
when the Roman consul Julius Caesar pursued his rival Pompey into Ptolemaic Egypt, a Roman client state. Upon arrival, Caesar discovered that Pompey had...
Egypt (Arabic: مصر Miṣr [mesˁr], Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mɑsˤr]), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning...
Alexandrine war, was a phase of Caesar's civil war in which Julius Caesar involved himself in an Egyptian dynastic struggle. Caesar attempted to mediate a succession...
reclaim the throne. Julius Caesar left Rome for Alexandria in 48 BC in order to quell the looming civil war, as war inEgypt, which was one of Rome's greatest...
Donato Creti: Cleopatra (1710) Pietro da Cortona: Caesar Placing Cleopatra Back on the Throne of Egypt ("Cesare rimette Cleopatra sul trono d'Egitto") (1637)...
from Caesar. Caesar subsequently named Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus as his chief lieutenant in Asia Minor while Caesar traveled to Ptolemaic Egypt. With...
the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology)...
Julius Caesar arrived inEgypt and supported Cleopatra in the struggle between her and her brother. Pothinus organized military opposition against Caesar. In...
lover of Roman dictator Julius Caesar. Ptolemy is considered to have reigned in name only, as a concession to Egyptian tradition, with Cleopatra keeping...
austere Caesar, and Egypt as a female domain, embodied by a Cleopatra who is seen to be as abundant, leaky, and changeable as the Nile". In such a reading...
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