Julius Caesar (Collins Classics)HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Power, corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeare’s most well-known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as a threat to Roman citizens, his senators plot to bring about his downfall. Caesar’s assassination leads to civil war rather than peace and the play explores the subsequent deaths of the conspirators Brutus and Cassius. Shakespeare’s contemporaries would have spotted the playwright’s attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeare’s plays, Julius Caesar remains one of his most well-loved historical tragedies. |
From inside the book
Results 1-2 of 2
... Tempest, while the upper stage was certainly the balcony from which Romeo climbs down in Act III of Romeo and Juliet. It can be seen that such a building, simple but adaptable, was not really unsuited to the presentation of plays like ...
... Tempest Shakespeare's brother, Gilbert, dies. Henry VIII Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespeare buys a house at Blackfriars. Shakespeare's daughter, Judith, marries Thomas Quiney. Death of Shakespeare on his birthday, April 23rd. Death of Anne ...