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Caesar and the Gauls
Overview
Julius Caesar's military expeditions to Gaul in the first century B.C. marked a dramatic turning point in the history of continental Europe. After Caesar's ...
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Gaius Julius Caesar
102 B.C.-44 B.C.
Roman General and Statesman
Without a doubt the most significant figure in the history of Rome, Julius Caesar paved the way both for the end of the republic and th...
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Biography Essay No history, however bent on emphasizing collective decisions, can manage to get rid of the disturbing presence of individuals, they are simply there. -Arnaldo Momigliano, The Developm...
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Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) was a Roman general and politician who overthrew the Roman Republic and established the rule of the emperors.At the time of Julius Caesar's birth the political, social,...
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No history, however bent on emphasizing collective decisions, can manage to get rid of the disturbing presence of individuals, they are simply there.--Arnaldo Momigliano,The Development of Greek Biogr...
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Biography Essay"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer,...
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The English playwright, poet, and actor William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest of English writers and one of the most extraordinary creators in human history.The ...
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Considered by critics, scholars, and the theater-going public the most important dramatist in the history of English literature, William Shakespeare occupies a unique position in the pantheon of great...
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"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or ...
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William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly ...
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Dennis Kezar, Vanderbilt University
"The World makes many vntrue Constructions of these Speaches."1
For an antitheatricalist such as Stephen Gosson, the Renaissance stage travesties t...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1981, Mack concentrates on the modern view of history presented in Julius Caesar—a conception of history as a process guided principally by nonra...
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In the following essay, Willson analyzes Act 3, scene 1 of Julius Caesar—in which Brutus and Antony give their funeral orations to Caesar—and examines Shakespeare's use of metadra...
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In the following essay, Maquerlot evaluates Julius Caesar as a Mannerist drama fraught with ambiguity, and contends that Shakespeare constantly altered audience sympathies toward Caesar.
In the second...
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In the following essay, Kezar maintains that in Julius Caesar Shakespeare explored the potential ‘irresponsibility’ of theater as it appropriates history, subverts audience response, and...
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In the following essay, Scott considers Shakespeare's ironic treatment of self-knowledge in Julius Caesar.
Terry Eagleton began his early book on Shakespeare and Society by quoting from Ulysses...
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In the following essay, Howe interprets Julius Caesar in terms of Buddhist conceptions of samsara (the endless cycle of worldly life and death) and compassion arising from the acceptance of life as su...
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In the following essay, Buhler regards the Epicurean skepticism of Cassius in Julius Caesar as it illustrates the play's concern with political materialism.
Postremo cur sancta deum delubra sua...
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In the following essay, Velz delineates the combined influence of oratory and command on Roman history in Julius Caesar.
Among the sigla of Roman life in Julius Caesar, two, oratory and the role of th...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in 1989, Walch comments on the volatility of historical and linguistic meaning in Julius Caesar, concentrating on the oppositional discursive structure o...
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In the following essay, de Gerenday explores the psychological and thematic significance of Brutus's ritualization of Caesar's murder, and the resulting ambiguity this produces in Julius...
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In the following essay, Blits studies the motivations of Brutus, and finds that in his inability to reconcile virtue and political action, Brutus ultimately fails to realize his idealized intentions f...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1985, Bulman investigates Shakespeare's manipulation of heroic conventions in his depiction of Brutus, Antony, and Caesar.
The idioms Shakespeare...
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In the following essay, Marshall discusses Portia's self-wounding and Calphurnia's dream of Caesar's death as they represent the linguistic instability of character in Julius Caes...
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In the following essay, Bathory examines the relationship between self-knowledge and politics in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus, and elucidates the affinity between Brutus's self-delusion and the...
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In the following essay, Charney offers an overview of Julius Caesar. The critic examines the way in which Shakespeare compressed historical events, the relation of the play to Shakespeare's Eng...
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In the following essay, Kujawinska-Courtney argues that the play's treatment of Julius Caesar's character is focused on whether Caesar should be viewed as insolent, impious, and imperfec...
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In the following essay, Hamer studies the characters of Portia and Calpurnia in Julius Caesar, and examines the ways in which the education of women and the Roman conception of marriage contribute to ...
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In the following review, Miller examines the 1953 MGM film adaptation of Julius Caesar directed by Joseph Mankiewicz. Miller relates the film to aspects of 1950s American culture and argues that at th...
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In the following excerpted review of Barry Edelstein's stage adaptation of Julius Caesar for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Weber finds the production as a whole to be rather unmoving. Addi...
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In the following review, Isherwood offers a mixed appraisal of Julius Caesar as directed by Barry Edelstein. Isherwood comments that the production suffered from a failure to create a sense of gravity...
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In the following excerpted review, Barbour describes Barry Edelstein's production of Julius Caesar as fast paced and “sure-handed.”
New Yorkers, normally a rather blasé lot...
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In the following essay, Yoder characterizes Julius Caesar as a condensed version of Shakespeare's historical tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V). Yoder relates Juli...
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In the following essay, Knights analyzes how Shakespeare contrasted public and private life in Julius Caesar.
Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar in 1599, and the play was first performed in the new thea...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1991, Girard argues that “Julius Caesar is the play in which the violent essence of the theatre and of human culture itself are revealed.”...
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In the following essay, Parker suggests that Julius Caesar may be read as a satire of Papal Rome, in which Caesar represents the Antichrist.
Julius Caesar is an odd mix of elements. It contains no app...
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In the following excerpt, Spevack surveys the dramatic structure, themes, and characters of Julius Caesar.
The Frame
Broadly seen, Shakespeare's concern with the private sphere is most evident ...
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In the following essay, Bowden describes Brutus as self-righteous and intellectually limited.
A bothersome passage in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is Brutus' accusation of Cassius in the ...
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In the following essay, Levitsky illuminates Brutus's Stoic virtues and contrasts his character with the less admirable Caesar.
In a survey of the half-century (1900-50) of scholarship dealing ...
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In the following essay, Rice contends that Julius Caesar promotes a philosophy of character based upon Renaissance Pyrrhonism, a skeptical philosophical position that underscores the antiheroic, falli...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1983, Nuttall traces the ways in which Shakespeare infused Brutus's character with such abstract qualities as Stoicism, pathos, egotism, shame, a...
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In the following review, Carnegy praises Edward Hall's 2001 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, particularly its portrayal of the conspirators, rather than Caesar, as the gre...
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In the following excerpted review of Edward Hall's 2002 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, Jackson notes that despite Hall's “ruthless” cutting of Shake...
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In the following review of Edward Hall's 2002 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, Johnson decries the cliché of presenting Caesar as a fascist dictator.
The Royal Shak...
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In the following review of Karin Coonrod's 2003 Theatre for a New Audience production of Julius Caesar, Weber contends that this production's contemporary American setting and anti-conse...
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In the following review, Weber admires director Daniel Sullivan's 2003 production of Julius Caesar staged at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, particularly its imaginative and politically evo...
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In the following excerpted review of Laird Williamson's 2003 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar, Berlin compliments Williamson's intriguing interpretation of the pla...
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In the following essay, Chang views Julius Caesar as a demonstration of Shakespeare's historical relativism.
Criticism of Julius Caesar has moved steadily toward the position recently taken by ...
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In the following excerpt, Kaufmann and Ronan discuss Julius Caesar as a sustained study of the limits and tragic potentiality of Stoic constancy.
My enemies are those who want to destroy without creat...
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In the following essay, Bellringer maintains that the subject of Julius Caesar is essentially Roman, with no significant Elizabethan or modern parallels.
I
Julius Caesar is best regarded as an example...
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In the following essay, Taylor regards Julius Caesar as a drama concerned with clashing philosophical perspectives: the Epicurean philosophy of Cassius and the superstitious worldview of Caesar.
Pluta...
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In the following essay, Vawter contends that Julius Caesar should be understood as a critique not just of Caesar's tyrannical ambition or the malicious intent of the conspirators, but as a whol...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1993, Wilson examines the carnivalesque elements of Julius Caesar.
Julius Caesar was the first Shakespearean play we know to have been acted at the Glob...
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In the following essay, Wells claims that in Julius Caesar Shakespeare depicted a Machiavellian view of politics and history.
Why did Shakespeare use stories from the Graeco-Roman world? Machiavelli w...
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In the following essay, Vaughan looks at Julius Caesar from the point of view of performance, discussing such elements as setting, stage design, casting, and directorial modifications to the play.
Sha...
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In the following excerpt, Garber observes that the source of the tragedy in Julius Caesar is the repeated and sometimes willful misinterpretation of omens and dreams.
Gi; dream and Interpretation: Jul...
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In the essay below, Liebler argues that Shakespeare's reference to the Lupercalian rites in Li is more significant than most critics have assumed, and that in fact the importance of celebrating...
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In the essay that follows, McAlindon examines the ominous significance of the numbers four and eight in Julius Caesar, and contends that the more alert members of Shakespeare's contemporary aud...
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In the essay below, Finkelstein argues against updating Julius Caesar to Mussolini's fascist Italy on grounds that such an update misrepresents the actual social conflict in the play—whi...
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In the following excerpt, Berry observes that the importance of class in Julius Caesar is demonstrated by the fact that even though Brutus "is wrong all of the time, " he is nevertheless...
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In the excerpt below, Hampton contends that Shakespeare relies on rhetoric—more specifically, word play—to explore the untenable relationship between the patrician class and Caesar, the ...
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In the essay that follows, Rebhorn argues that Julius Caesar is less about regicide than about the self-destruction of the Roman aristocratic, senatorial class through its members' efforts to o...
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Below, Hamer suggests that Caesar's triumph, his assassination, and the imminent destruction of the Roman republic are reflected in the tribunes' anxiety and their subsequent wish to enf...
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Below, Lowenthal argues that Shakespeare portrays the character Julius Caesar as a great but ruthless leader, uninterested in either justice or the welfare of the common people but focused instead on ...
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In the following essay, Bradley characterizes Caska (or Casca) as a hypocritical Cynic whose role in the play is nevertheless to expose the weaknesses of Brutus's Stoicism and Cassius's ...
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In the following excerpt, Danson asserts that the murders and suicides touched off by and including the assassination of Caesar are in fact "meaningless " nonrituals and that the play do...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1951, Stevens examines instances in De Bello Gallico in which Caesar conceals the truth or interprets events self-servingly.
It is not poss...
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In the following essay, Rossi contends that Caesar used established rhetorical models and types as a way of leading his readers towards the conclusions he wished them to reach.
Asinius' Pollio ...
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In the following excerpt, Adcock explains how Caesar enlarged the genre of commentarii, examines his motivations for writing, and asserts that his plain and precise writing style accurately reflects h...
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In the following essay, Collins argues that Caesar was a moderate rather than a revolutionary, and that most of his writings should be accepted as truth, not propaganda.
I.
In a fundamental article in...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in German in 1979, Yavetz surveys modern interpretations of Caesar, focusing on the question of whether he should be considered a dictator.
The Problem1
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In the following essay, Pelling argues that many of Caesar's battles and maneuvers were too complex to be understood by his intended readers, so that he simplified his accounts accordingly.
Cae...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in German in 1982, Meier explains how in De Bello Gallico Caesar triumphs by taking the offensive, presenting himself in total control, and purposely avo...
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In the following essay, Damon explains that, in reading De Bello Civili, it is important to recognize the character traits of the individuals discussed; to understand Caesar's narrative as a Ro...
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In the following essay, Henderson explores how the act of writing helped to create the image of Caesar that he wanted to project of himself.
Whereupon Henderson rose, in his place, to speak his motion...
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In the following essay, Lendon explains how Caesar adapted Greek theories of warfare to better reflect Roman values and culture, particularly the Roman emphasis on courage.
War eclipses all other subj...
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In the following essay, originally published in 1981, Mack concentrates on the modern view of history presented in Julius Caesar—a conception of history as a process guided principally by nonra...
Read more
In the following essay, de Gerenday explores the psychological and thematic significance of Brutus's ritualization of Caesar's murder, and the resulting ambiguity this produces in Julius...
Read more
In the following essay, Blits studies the motivations of Brutus, and finds that in his inability to reconcile virtue and political action, Brutus ultimately fails to realize his idealized intentions f...
Read more
In the following essay, originally published in 1985, Bulman investigates Shakespeare's manipulation of heroic conventions in his depiction of Brutus, Antony, and Caesar.
The idioms Shakespeare...
Read more
In the following essay, Marshall discusses Portia's self-wounding and Calphurnia's dream of Caesar's death as they represent the linguistic instability of character in Julius Caes...
Read more
In the following essay, Bathory examines the relationship between self-knowledge and politics in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus, and elucidates the affinity between Brutus's self-delusion and the...
Read more
In the following essay, Willson analyzes Act 3, scene 1 of Julius Caesar—in which Brutus and Antony give their funeral orations to Caesar—and examines Shakespeare's use of metadra...
Read more
In the following essay, Maquerlot evaluates Julius Caesar as a Mannerist drama fraught with ambiguity, and contends that Shakespeare constantly altered audience sympathies toward Caesar.
In the second...
Read more
In the following essay, Kezar maintains that in Julius Caesar Shakespeare explored the potential ‘irresponsibility’ of theater as it appropriates history, subverts audience response, and...
Read more
In the following essay, Scott considers Shakespeare's ironic treatment of self-knowledge in Julius Caesar.
Terry Eagleton began his early book on Shakespeare and Society by quoting from Ulysses...
Read more
In the following essay, Howe interprets Julius Caesar in terms of Buddhist conceptions of samsara (the endless cycle of worldly life and death) and compassion arising from the acceptance of life as su...
Read more
In the following essay, Buhler regards the Epicurean skepticism of Cassius in Julius Caesar as it illustrates the play's concern with political materialism.
Postremo cur sancta deum delubra sua...
Read more
In the following essay, Velz delineates the combined influence of oratory and command on Roman history in Julius Caesar.
Among the sigla of Roman life in Julius Caesar, two, oratory and the role of th...
Read more
In the following excerpt, originally published in 1989, Walch comments on the volatility of historical and linguistic meaning in Julius Caesar, concentrating on the oppositional discursive structure o...
Read more
In the following essay, Charney offers an overview of Julius Caesar. The critic examines the way in which Shakespeare compressed historical events, the relation of the play to Shakespeare's Eng...
Read more
In the following essay, originally published in 1991, Girard argues that “Julius Caesar is the play in which the violent essence of the theatre and of human culture itself are revealed.”...
Read more
In the following essay, Parker suggests that Julius Caesar may be read as a satire of Papal Rome, in which Caesar represents the Antichrist.
Julius Caesar is an odd mix of elements. It contains no app...
Read more
In the following essay, Kujawinska-Courtney argues that the play's treatment of Julius Caesar's character is focused on whether Caesar should be viewed as insolent, impious, and imperfec...
Read more
In the following essay, Hamer studies the characters of Portia and Calpurnia in Julius Caesar, and examines the ways in which the education of women and the Roman conception of marriage contribute to ...
Read more
In the following review, Miller examines the 1953 MGM film adaptation of Julius Caesar directed by Joseph Mankiewicz. Miller relates the film to aspects of 1950s American culture and argues that at th...
Read more
In the following excerpted review of Barry Edelstein's stage adaptation of Julius Caesar for the New York Shakespeare Festival, Weber finds the production as a whole to be rather unmoving. Addi...
Read more
In the following review, Isherwood offers a mixed appraisal of Julius Caesar as directed by Barry Edelstein. Isherwood comments that the production suffered from a failure to create a sense of gravity...
Read more
In the following excerpted review, Barbour describes Barry Edelstein's production of Julius Caesar as fast paced and “sure-handed.”
New Yorkers, normally a rather blasé lot...
Read more
In the following essay, Yoder characterizes Julius Caesar as a condensed version of Shakespeare's historical tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV, Parts One and Two, and Henry V). Yoder relates Juli...
Read more
In the following essay, Knights analyzes how Shakespeare contrasted public and private life in Julius Caesar.
Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar in 1599, and the play was first performed in the new thea...
Read more
In the following excerpt, Spevack surveys the dramatic structure, themes, and characters of Julius Caesar.
The Frame
Broadly seen, Shakespeare's concern with the private sphere is most evident ...
Read more
In the following review, Weber admires director Daniel Sullivan's 2003 production of Julius Caesar staged at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, particularly its imaginative and politically evo...
Read more
In the following excerpted review of Laird Williamson's 2003 Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar, Berlin compliments Williamson's intriguing interpretation of the pla...
Read more
In the following essay, Chang views Julius Caesar as a demonstration of Shakespeare's historical relativism.
Criticism of Julius Caesar has moved steadily toward the position recently taken by ...
Read more
In the following excerpt, Kaufmann and Ronan discuss Julius Caesar as a sustained study of the limits and tragic potentiality of Stoic constancy.
My enemies are those who want to destroy without creat...
Read more
In the following essay, Bellringer maintains that the subject of Julius Caesar is essentially Roman, with no significant Elizabethan or modern parallels.
I
Julius Caesar is best regarded as an example...
Read more
In the following essay, Taylor regards Julius Caesar as a drama concerned with clashing philosophical perspectives: the Epicurean philosophy of Cassius and the superstitious worldview of Caesar.
Pluta...
Read more
In the following essay, Vawter contends that Julius Caesar should be understood as a critique not just of Caesar's tyrannical ambition or the malicious intent of the conspirators, but as a whol...
Read more
In the following essay, originally published in 1993, Wilson examines the carnivalesque elements of Julius Caesar.
Julius Caesar was the first Shakespearean play we know to have been acted at the Glob...
Read more
In the following essay, Wells claims that in Julius Caesar Shakespeare depicted a Machiavellian view of politics and history.
Why did Shakespeare use stories from the Graeco-Roman world? Machiavelli w...
Read more
In the following essay, Bowden describes Brutus as self-righteous and intellectually limited.
A bothersome passage in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is Brutus' accusation of Cassius in the ...
Read more
In the following essay, Levitsky illuminates Brutus's Stoic virtues and contrasts his character with the less admirable Caesar.
In a survey of the half-century (1900-50) of scholarship dealing ...
Read more
In the following essay, Rice contends that Julius Caesar promotes a philosophy of character based upon Renaissance Pyrrhonism, a skeptical philosophical position that underscores the antiheroic, falli...
Read more
In the following essay, originally published in 1983, Nuttall traces the ways in which Shakespeare infused Brutus's character with such abstract qualities as Stoicism, pathos, egotism, shame, a...
Read more
In the following review, Carnegy praises Edward Hall's 2001 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, particularly its portrayal of the conspirators, rather than Caesar, as the gre...
Read more
In the following excerpted review of Edward Hall's 2002 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, Jackson notes that despite Hall's “ruthless” cutting of Shake...
Read more
In the following review of Edward Hall's 2002 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Julius Caesar, Johnson decries the cliché of presenting Caesar as a fascist dictator.
The Royal Shak...
Read more
In the following review of Karin Coonrod's 2003 Theatre for a New Audience production of Julius Caesar, Weber contends that this production's contemporary American setting and anti-conse...
Read more
In Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", Caesar is displayed as a powerful and dynamic figure in Rome because of his many accomplishments in previous wars as well as battles. When Caesar returns to Rome fr...
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Every great leader has flaws, but one to many may lead to failure in the eyes of society. "The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are of...
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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar was a bold, determined leader. He launched a program of public works to employ the jobless and gave land to the poor. He reorganized the government of the provinces and gr...
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"Et tu, Brutè? Then fall, Caesar!"
Act III, Scene I, Line 77
In the play Julius Caesar, these famous and ironic last words are spoken by the leader of Rome, Julius Caesar himself. Although fi...
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Octavian's Beginning
When Octavian was born in 63 BC, his parents new he was destined for great things. His birth name was Gaius Octavius, he would later be known as Augustus Caesar. His father wa...
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For Gaius Julius Caesar, every action was motivated by political calculation. Caesar's unquenchable thirst for power and political progress was the major cause for the fall of the great Roman Republic...
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Julius Caesar was one of history's most famous men. Julius Caesar was brave. Julius Caesar was also very good with people. Willing anything in Caesar life a chance to win a big in the game of g...
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Julius Cesar was a Roman general and statesman, who laid the foundations of the Roman leadership system. Julius Cesar was born on July 12, 100 B.C. to the prestigious Julian clan. His uncle Gaius Mari...
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A moral politician is a term that most think of as an oxymoron, two puzzle pieces that don't quite fit together. Abraham Lincoln stated that, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to t...
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Caesar was born approximately 100 B.C. and died around 44 B.C. Caesar was a noble Roman leader who participated in many activities dealing with his community. Caesar was and still is known as one of h...
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In 44 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar, the foremost political and military figure who played a key part in the development of the Roman Empire and its civilization, was shamefully assassinated. The conspirato...
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In 1599 William Shakespeare wrote and performed Julius Caesar, a play about an arrogant, tyrant leader that is assassinated and his spot on the throne is fought for. The two opposing groups, Brutus a...
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ACT I
Morning of March 14
Yesterday I was told that Caesar was coming back from a victory. Although it was against Pompey's sons, I think he should be crowned king. Today I went to town with a bu...
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In this play Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, Caesar was the most powerful man at his time and still he was assassinated. There are many reasons why he died. He ignored the warning of th...
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In the play Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, the villains of the play, otherwise known as the conspirators, make a harsh decision on whether to assassinate an envied monarch or to live t...
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Julius Caesar (100-44BC) was one of the greatest men produced by ancient Rome and he remains today a famous personality in world history (Barlow 2005). The conspirators were wrong to murder Julius Cae...
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Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) was one of the most outstanding leaders in history. He was the first ruler of the Romano-Hellenic civilization and achieved his goals with great success throughout his life o...
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"Julius Caesar" should be considered good literature. The plot was captivating and made me want the story to continue. There was very good use of symbolism throughout the play, and the characters were...
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The Life and Times of Gaius Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 12th or 13th, 100 BC in Rome. He was assassinated March 15th, 44 BC in Rome. March 15th can also be identified as the id...
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"Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"(3.3.254) exclaims Antony in his funeral speech. Caesar's arrogance contributes greatly to his downfall, and it is not to his advantage that not many peopl...
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William Shakespeare's significantly historical play "Julius Caesar" creates a clear image in our minds: with power and greatness come arrogance and ignorance. This image is delivered to us via Julius ...
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Symbolism is the art of using an object, act, or person to represent and explain another procedure or purpose from the story. Symbolism was displayed and brought out in the classic tragedy Julius Cae...
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In the art of writing, there are various ways of expressing thoughts, beliefs, and many other things. One way, is through Symbolism where a person, animal, inanimate object, or an action is used to re...
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Manipulation of the Crowd
Antony made a very good speech in front of crowd that was already in favor of conspirators. Antony's words were really stylish, he spoke with his emotion, and he used ...
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Tragic Hero-Marcus Brutus
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, there are a great many tragic heroes. One of these heroes is Marcus Brutus the noble Roman. Brutus is a tragic hero ...
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In the novel Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, subtext is employed to subtly develop a character. Mark Antony is a very complex character whose motives and character are often developed through th...
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Complex Personalities
Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, was an extremely popular drama. Even though this story is old, people until this day, still enjoy reading and watching this trag...
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The play presents different vies of heroism primarily through two central characters, Caesar and Brutus. Caesar is represents a view characterised by courage and defiance. He sees himself as superior ...
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Julius Caesar Book Notes is a free study guide on Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Browse the summary below:
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Teaching Julius Caesar
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Thirty-five reproducible activities per guide reinforce basic reading and comprehension skills while teaching higher-order critical thinking. Also included are teaching suggestions, background note...
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