A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a ...

Alas for history, little of Caesar’s work survives (see The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar). What we do have, however, is important, the fourteen “books” of war commentaries; ...

Julius Caesar is a problematic play, structurally – basically it falls apart in the second half – and in terms of its principal character, the chilly, remote Brutus. Shakespeare created many ...