TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shakespare, Willam 
AU  - R.B. Kennedy 
TI  - Julius Caesar
SN  - 9780007925469
AV  - FIC .S43 2013 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London
PB  - Collins Classics, 
KW  - ROME HISTORY -- CIVIL WAR -- FICTION
KW  - ASSASSIN JUVENILE -- DRAMA -- FICTION
KW  - ENGLISH LITERATURE -- HISTORY AND CRITICISM -- FICTION
N1  - The Theatre in Shakespeare's Day -- Shakespeare: A Timeline -- Life & Time -- Money in Shakespeare's Day -- Introduction -- List of characters -- Text -- Shakespeare: Words and Phrases
N2  - "Power, corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeare’s most well-known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as a threat to Roman citizens, his senators plot to bring about his downfall. Caesar’s assassination leads to civil war rather than peace and the play explores the subsequent deaths of the conspirators Brutus and Cassius.

Shakespeare’s contemporaries would have spotted the playwright’s attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeare’s plays, Julius Caesar remains one of his most well-loved historical tragedies."

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