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. |
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William Shakespeare. An Elizabethan playhouse. Note the apron stage protruding into the auditorium, the space below ... Shakespeare's Day On the face of it,
William Shakespeare. The. Theatre. in. Shakespeare's. Day. On the face of it, the conditions in the Elizabethan theatre were not such as to encourage great writers. The public playhouse itself was not very different from an ordinary innyard ...
... Shakespeare, produced one of the greatest writers in history. In spite of all his grumbles he seems to have been ... Shakespeare's. Time. For centuries in England noblemen had employed groups of skilled people to entertain them when ...
... Shakespeare's plays were beginning to be performed, audiences consisted of a good crosssection of English society ... Shakespeare had to write plays which would appeal to people of widely different kinds. He had to provide 'something for ...
William Shakespeare. quality of most of the actors who first presented Shakespeare's plays is probably accurately summed up by Fynes Moryson, who wrote, '... as there be, in my opinion, more plays in London than in all the parts of the ...