The Triumph of Rome: Act 5 of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”
We shall try fortune in a second fight. - Brutus Act 4 of the Julius Caesar has shown us that in a world devoid of divine providence,…
We shall try fortune in a second fight. - Brutus Act 4 of the Julius Caesar has shown us that in a world devoid of divine providence,…
The word “merry” occurs twice in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The first time in Act 2.4, where Portia asks her servant to tell Brutus that she is “merry”…
“Without being compatriots, they were all Romans. When everyone became a Roman citizen, Rome ceased having any citizens; and when being a Roman citizen became equivalent to…
Act 2 of the Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar[1] opens with a reference to Act. 1.2.140. According to Brutus, Cassius is wrong about blaming men for fateful events (2.1.2-4).[2]…
“[I]f Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.” As a dramatic account of the origins and limits of political authority, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar…
“Beware the Ides of March!” As it does every year, this March fifteenth affords us the opportunity to contemplate the recurrent patterns of history. Yet what exactly…
The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works. Kurt A. Raaflaub, ed. and trans. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017. As part of The Landmark Series, The Landmark…