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| William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. | Elibron Classics, 2001, 120 pages.
ISBN 9780543897145 paperback
ISBN 9780543897138 hardcover |
| | |  | This superb tragedy centers on the senators Cassius and Brutus, who conspire to assassinate the title character and set up a new government. However, their plot is foiled by Mark Antony, who stirs the masses into battle against Caesar's murderers. Like many of Shakespeare's plays, Julius Caesar introduced a number of new expressions into the English language; for example, take note of how Casca describes Cicero's speech in Act I. |
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| William Shakespeare (1564-1616), list of works | |  | | Most of what is known about William Shakespeare's life derives either from legal records or from spurious anecdotes. (Differing accounts of one eight-year period list his occupation as soldier, stable-boy, schoolmaster, and thief). Regardless of how he began, he ended as a playwright "not of an age, but for all time"; his influence is as strongly felt today as it was four centuries ago. |
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