“Rome's choice during her civil wars lay between a senatorial Republican form of government and a strong single rul although the monarchial English might incline to be suspicious of republicanism, they had no experience to compare it with. . .… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
“Julius Caesar is an ambivalent study of civil conflict. As in Richard II, the play is structured around two protagonists rather than one. Cesar and Brutus are more alike one another than either would care to admit. This antithetical balance reflects a dual tradition: the medieval view of Dante and Chaucer condemning Brutus and Cassius as conspirators, and the Renaissance… — David Bevington Copy Share
“According to widely accepted mythology Elizabethans considered themselves descended from the Romans through another Brutus, the great-grandson of Aeneas.” — David Bevington Copy Share Image
“Politics seems to require a morality quite apart from that of personal life, posing a tragic dilemma for Brutus as for Richard II or… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
“Rome's choice during her civil wars lay between a senatorial Republican form of government and a strong single rul although the monarchial English might… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
“Opportunists prosper in the atmosphere of crisis, although fittingly even they are sometimes undone by their own scheming,” — David Bevington Copy Share Image
