Julius CaesarIn this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides of March”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends, Romans, countrymen!” Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... gods do not intervenein human affairs: what will be will be, and so there is no need to pay attention to omens and auguries. Fromthis philosophyitisonly a short step to that of Machiavelli—might is right and there is nosuch thing asa ...
... gods do not intervenein human affairs: what will be will be, and so there is no need to pay attention to omens and auguries. Fromthis philosophyitisonly a short step to that of Machiavelli—might is right and there is nosuch thing asa ...
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... gods so speed94 me, as I love The nameof honour morethan Ifear death. CASSIUS I know thatvirtue tobe inyou, Brutus, As well as Idoknow your outward favour.97 Well, honour is the subject of my story: I cannot tell what you and other men ...
... gods so speed94 me, as I love The nameof honour morethan Ifear death. CASSIUS I know thatvirtue tobe inyou, Brutus, As well as Idoknow your outward favour.97 Well, honour is the subject of my story: I cannot tell what you and other men ...
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... god, and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body123 If Caesar carelessly but nodon him. He hada fever ... gods, itdoth amazeme A man of sucha feeble temper should So get the start of136 the majestic world And bear the ...
... god, and Cassius is A wretched creature, and must bend his body123 If Caesar carelessly but nodon him. He hada fever ... gods, itdoth amazeme A man of sucha feeble temper should So get the start of136 the majestic world And bear the ...
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... gods at once, Upon what meat155 doththisour Caesar feed That heisgrown so great? — Age156,thou art shamed! — Rome, thou hastlost the breed of157 noble bloods!— When went there by an age, since the great flood158, But it was famed with ...
... gods at once, Upon what meat155 doththisour Caesar feed That heisgrown so great? — Age156,thou art shamed! — Rome, thou hastlost the breed of157 noble bloods!— When went there by an age, since the great flood158, But it was famed with ...
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Contents
The TragedyofJulius Caesar The List of Parts | |
Scene 5 | |
Farr and Lucy Bailey Shakespeares Careerin the Theater | |
A Chronology | |
Acknowledgments and Picture Credits | |
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Act 5 Scene actors Alarum andthe Antony’s ARTEMIDORUS assassination atthe audience battle bear blood Brutus and Cassius Caesar’s body Caius Calpurnia Capitol Casca Cassius Cato Cicero Cimber Cinna CLITUS conspirators crowd crown dangerous death Decius doth Elizabethan Exeunt Act Exit Farr fear Flavius Folio FOURTH PLEBEIAN fromthe Ghost give gods hand hath hear heart honourable inhis inthe Jonathan Bate Julius Caesar kill king Lepidus Ligarius look lord Lucilius Lucius Mark Antony Messala Metellus mighty modern Murellus noble Octavius ofthe omens performance Philippi Pindarus play Poet political Pompey Pompey’s Portia production Roman Rome Royal Shakespeare Company running scene SECOND PLEBEIAN senate SERVANT Shakespeare SOLDIER SOOTHSAYER speak speech spirit stage stand Stratford-upon-Avon Strato sword tell thatthe theater theaudience thee theplay there’s THIRD PLEBEIAN thou Titinius tobe tothe Tragedy Trebonius Varrus Volumnius Winter’s Winter’s Tale withthe words