Such churn gives urgency to the scene in which the conspirators discuss wanting power and what they will do with it Brutus, leaving Mark Anthony in play, pays later for his kindness/weakness. When Caesar and others exit, Cassius and Brutus remain behind. Act 1, scene 2 Synopsis: A soothsayer advises Caesar that the fifteenth of March will be a dangerous day for him. As the psephological sage John Curtice has pointed out, almost no head of government who led a country through Covid is still in post. The Folger Shakespeare Julius Caesar audiobook is available on a wide variety of audiobook platforms. Of the core world leaders who attended the 2019 G7 meeting, only two remain in power and one, Japan’s Shinzo Abe, was assassinated after leaving office. The wider political context now is the flimsiness of power. However, Atri Banerjee’s deliberately non-Spitting Image RSC production stresses the remarkable universality of the play’s dissection of leaders and the led, fulfilling Cassius’s prophecy that Caesar’s murder will be “acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown”. British prime ministers change so rapidly these days that a similar approach would risk recasting during rehearsal. E arly in the Trump administration, there was controversy over a New York staging of Julius Caesar in which the actor playing the slain tyrant resembled the 45th president. Julius Caesar is a Shakespeare play with many instantly recognisable quotes ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’ anyone As with so many of his plays Shakespeare brings the characters to life with fantastic dialogue and some very memorable quotes.
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