Julius Caesar - Entire Play | Folger Shakespeare Library
2015年7月31日 · Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar's death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance…
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About Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar - Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar to be the first of his plays to take the stage at his acting company’s new Globe theater in 1599. At this important point in his career as a playwright, Shakespeare turned to a key event in Roman history.
An Introduction to This Text: Julius Caesar - Folger Shakespeare …
Julius Caesar was first printed in the 1623 collection of Shakespeare’s plays now known as the First Folio. The present edition is based directly upon that printing. 1 For the convenience of the reader, we have modernized the punctuation and the spelling of the Folio text.
Julius Caesar - Act 3, scene 1 | Folger Shakespeare Library
2015年7月31日 · Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar's death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians.
A Modern Perspective: Julius Caesar - Folger Shakespeare Library
Octavius Caesar became sole emperor of Rome by defeating the conspirators in the final battle at Philippi in 42 B.C.E. and then by conquering his former ally Antony at Actium in 31 B.C.E. This is the play’s tragic irony, and some knowledge of Roman history can help us to appreciate it.
Julius Caesar - Characters in the Play - Folger Shakespeare Library
2015年7月31日 · Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar's death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance…
Listen: Julius Caesar - Folger Shakespeare Library
In the street Caesar brushes aside Artemidorus’s attempt to warn him of the conspiracy. Once inside the Capitol, the conspirators gather around Caesar under the guise of pleading for the return of an exile. Beginning with Casca they stab Caesar to death and bathe their arms and hands in his blood.
Further Reading: Julius Caesar | Folger Shakespeare Library
Attending to the play’s fractured nature “as an urban drama and a drama of state, a play of republican values and Tudor morality, and a play of two places—Rome and London,” Bushnell concludes that Julius Caesar is a “dynamic political text” rather than “a …
Julius Caesar - Folger Shakespeare Library
2021年11月5日 · Interested in politics and communication? Try our quiz and rearrange the lines of Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen” speech from Julius Caesar, a famous passage from Shakespeare’s plays and a brilliant example of political oratory.