Julius Caesar

Written about 1599, this Roman tragedy follows the conspiracy that kills Julius Caesar and the civil war that follows. Cassius draws the stoic Brutus into a plot justified as the defence of the republic against a man who may accept a crown. The assassination in the Capitol is public; Mark Antony's funeral speech turns the crowd; and the action moves to the camps of Brutus and Cassius as they face Antony and Octavius. Portia, Calpurnia, and the soothsayer stand at the edge of a male politics of honour and fear. The play is a study of persuasion, friendship, and the cost of killing a ruler in the name of liberty.

Bound in purple cloth blocked with a gilt and black quill design and spine title. Mottled grey slipcase.