Even if you’ve never seen Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, you’re likely to have heard this quote from Caesar’s funeral in act 3, scene 2. Of course, the quote’s speaker, a simmering Mark Antony (played ...
Believe it or not, that year lasted 445 days. It really happened, in Rome, and it became known as “the Year of Confusion.” Caesar had grown tired of spring festivals falling in the heat of summer and ...
Did Octavian, later known as the Roman emperor Augustus, have an affair with Julius Caesar? That’s precisely what Mark Antony ...
Julius Caesar reportedly said his last words in Greek: "And you, son Brutus?" But why did Caesar choose to speak these words ...
Cleopatra’s bold religious reforms and symbolic rule won her fierce loyalty and dangerous enemies within Egypt, forcing her ...
Philadelphia Theatre Company (PTC) will present Caesar, a new adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, February ...
After Julius Caesar’s death the Roman Senate declared him a god, a decision that transformed the political landscape. This ...
Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival is continuing its 34th Season in Vanier Park with the politically charged tragedy of Julius Caesar running from June 15 to September 23 in repertoire with As You ...
The senators of Rome emerge from marble columns and circle Julius Caesar one by one, listening to his speech to the crowd. Brutus, Cassius and other conspirators are nervous and afraid, as they ...