凯撒与克里奥帕特拉.pdf

凯 撒 与 克 里 奥 帕 特 拉 CONTENTS ACT I ………………………………………………… ( 1 ) ACT II ………………………………………………… (34) ACT III ……………………………………………… (71) ACT IV ……………………………………………… (102) ACT V ……………………………………………… (142) NOTES TO CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA …………… (153) CLEOPAT RAS CURE FOR BALDNES S ………… (153) APPARENT ANACHRONISMS ………………… (155) CLEOPAT RA ……………………………………… (161) B RITANNUS ……………………………………… (163) JUL IUS CAESAR ………………………………… (165) 1 凯 撒 与 克 里 奥 帕 特 拉 ACT I An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty , in the year 706 by Roman computa- tion ,afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B .C .A great radiance of silver fire , the dawn of a moonlit night , is rising in the east .The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contempo- raries ,nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them ; but you would not guess that from their appearance .Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization : a palace , and soldiers .The palace , an old , low , Syrian building of whitened mud , is not so ug- ly as Buckingham Palace ;and the officers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modern English officers :for example , they do not dig up the corpses of their dead enemies and mutilate them , as we dug up Cromwell and the Mahdi .They are in two groups :one intent on the gambling of their captain Belzanor , a warrior of fifty , who ,with his spear on the ground beside his knee , is stooping to throw dice with a sly - looking young Persian recruit ;the other