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"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 ...
in the First Folio from 1623 This 1888 painting by William Holmes Sullivan is named Et tu Brute and is located in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Photograph of the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar, the scene in which Julius Caesar (Joseph Holland, center) addresses the conspirators including Brutus (Orson Welles, left). Et tu, Brute?
Within the Tent of Brutus: Enter the Ghost of Caesar, Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene III, a 1905 portrait by Edwin Austin Abbey. 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.
[2] [3] [4] Shakespeare's source for Julius Caesar was The Life of Marcus Brutus from Plutarch's Lives, and the concept of the war dog appears in that work, in the section devoted to the Greek warrior Aratus. [5] [6]
A coin celebrating Casca and Brutus. He is called "envious Casca" by Mark Antony in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (1599). He is also referred to as "dull" and having a "sour fashion". He speaks in prose more frequently than the other characters who usually speak in verse. [9] "See what a rent the envious Casca made".
Clitus is a soldier, a follower of Brutus, in Julius Caesar. He refuses to aid Brutus' suicide. Cloten, son of the Queen and stepson to the king in Cymbeline, vainly loves Imogen, and eventually resolves to rape her. Clown: The Clown is the good-natured son of the Old Shepherd, gulled by Autolycus, in The Winter's Tale.
Favonius is the character known as the Poet who appears in Act IV Scene III of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. [20] Shakespeare took the details of this scene from Plutarch's Parallel Lives, in which, on Brutus' journey to Sardis, Plutarch writes that Brutus and Cassius fell into a dispute in an apartment (Shakespeare assigns this ...
Irony is the figure of speech where the words of a speaker intends to express a meaning that is directly opposite of the said words. [3] [4] Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest - For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men - Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: