In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.

 

There are 159 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Oxford University Press .

Once President of the Cambridge Footlights, Tim Scott has written many comic books for children, as well as being a comedy writer for Radio 4 and others.