Skip to main content
7 results from Shakespeare and Beyond on

Julius Caesar

View 27 results across all blogs
We know you think Julius Caesar is boring
Shakespeare and Beyond

We know you think Julius Caesar is boring

Posted
Author
Ben Lauer

We ask theater artists across the country to tell us why it isn’t.

Order It: Mark Antony's "Friends, Romans, countrymen"
Shakespeare and Beyond

Order It: Mark Antony's "Friends, Romans, countrymen"

Posted
Author
Shakespeare & Beyond

Interested in politics and communication? Try our quiz and rearrange the lines of Mark Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen” speech from Julius Caesar, a famous passage from Shakespeare’s plays and a brilliant example of political oratory.

‘Julius Caesar’ and Shakespeare’s change in the American curriculum, from rhetoric to literature
Shakespeare and Beyond

‘Julius Caesar’ and Shakespeare’s change in the American curriculum, from rhetoric to literature

Posted
Author
Shakespeare & Beyond

Early 19th-century American students would study speeches from Shakespeare’s plays as examples of good public speaking, not as literature. How did Shakespeare’s place in the school curriculum change?

Beware the Ides of March — and confusing interpretations of 'Julius Caesar'
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare and Beyond

Beware the Ides of March — and confusing interpretations of 'Julius Caesar'

Posted
Author
Austin Tichenor

Brutus (Anthony Cochrane, left) and Julius Caesar (Michael Sharon, right), Julius Caesar, directed by Robert Richmond, Folger Theatre, 2014. Photo by Teresa Wood. In 1599, in the 40th year of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, when she had no heir or obvious…

Drawing Shakespeare: Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar bas-relief. Drawing by Paul Glenshaw.
Shakespeare and Beyond

Drawing Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

Posted
Author
Paul Glenshaw

Artist Paul Glenshaw describes drawing the Folger bas-relief of “Julius Caesar,” in which assassins with their knives start to turn away as Caesar dies. He pairs the image with a painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Walters Art Museum in…

Excerpt: 'Julius Caesar and Me: Exploring Shakespeare’s African Play'
Shakespeare and Beyond

Excerpt: 'Julius Caesar and Me: Exploring Shakespeare’s African Play'

Posted
Author
Shakespeare & Beyond

Read an excerpt from actor Paterson Joseph’s book about playing the role of Brutus in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed 2012 production of Julius Caesar.

Beware the Ides of March
Shakespeare and Beyond

Beware the Ides of March

Posted
Author
Georgianna Ziegler

Perhaps if Caesar had paid attention to the Soothsayer and to his wife Calpurnia’s premonitions, he might not have been killed—but that would be re-writing history.