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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The editor’s introductory essay identifies main critical issues, charts the critical reception of the play through the twentieth century, analyzes various theoretical and ideological approaches to Julius Caesar, and provides a selective account of the play on stage and in film, on television, and in other media. Among the issues Zander ...

Amidst Cleopatra (1626), Antigone (1627-31) and Julia Agrippina (1628), "Julius Caesar" eminently stands out as May's only play with a classical setting to feature a male title character and to have been written in Latin.