“Julius Caesar is an ambivalent study of civil conflict. As in Richard II, the play is structured around two protagonists rather than… — 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… — David Bevington Copy Share Image
“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
