The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
1600
The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
1600
Rome in 44 BC is a city holding its breath. Julius Caesar, victorious general and popular hero, has returned from war crowned with glory, but the Senate fears he plans to make himself king. Into this tension steps Brutus, a man of noble conscience who convince himself that murdering his friend is the only way to save the Republic he loves. Shakespeare transforms historical assassination into devastating moral drama, asking whether violence can ever serve justice, and whether the knife that kills a tyrant might also kill something in the killer. The conspirators strike. But Mark Antony, speaking over Caesar's corpse, turns the Roman mob into a weapon with three words: "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." What follows is political retribution swift enough to make the heavens weep blood. This is Shakespeare at his most ruthlessly prescient: a play about how democracies unravel, how rhetoric conquers truth, and how the best intentions paved the road to ruin.
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“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.””
— William Shakespeare
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.””
— William Shakespeare
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.””
— William Shakespeare
“Double, double, toil and trouble;Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!””
— William Shakespeare
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.””
— William Shakespeare
“Look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under it.””
— William Shakespeare
“What's done cannot be undone.””
— William Shakespeare
“Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?””
— William Shakespeare
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.””
— William Shakespeare
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