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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often shortened to Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. In the play, Brutus joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to assassinate Julius Caesar , to prevent him from becoming a tyrant.
"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it ...
(While the story of Julius Caesar was dramatised repeatedly in the Elizabethan/Jacobean period, none of the other plays known are as good a match with Platter's description as Shakespeare's play.) [4] Summary Cassius persuades his friend Brutus to join a conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar, whose power seems to be growing too great for Rome's good ...
The sketch recasts Shakespeare's historical tragedy Julius Caesar as "a hard-boiled detective story". [5] [8] Fresh after Caesar's assassination, Brutus (Shuster) engages the services of "private Roman eye" Flavius Maximus (Wayne) to identify the killer, and Flavius goes around interrogating suspects. [5]
This is almost universally accepted as a reference to a performance of Julius Caesar at the recently opened Globe Theatre. [186] Evidence: obviously, the play was completed by September 1599, and may have been composed specifically as the opening play for the new theatre. Other pieces of evidence also serve to link it to 1599.
The original series included an introduction to each play, text of the play, copious literary notes following the text, textual notes, and a glossary. [3] The original series included the following volumes: Released 1939: As You Like It, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Released 1940: Henry IV, part 1, King Lear, and Romeo and ...
Caesar and Antony take action against each other as if playing a card game; playing by the rules of Chance, [90] which sways in its preference from time to time. Although Caesar and Antony may play political cards with each other, their successes rely somewhat on Chance, which hints at a certain limit to the control they have over political ...
Artemidorus of Knidos (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτεμίδωρος), 1st century BC, was a native of Knidos in southwest Anatolia.. He is now best known as a minor character in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar where, aware of the plot against Caesar's life, he attempts to warn him with a written note.