Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 2: Characters and Questions

29/05/2023 22 min Temporada 1 Episodio 22
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 2: Characters and Questions

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Part 2 focuses on the play’s key interpretive questions: how we are invited to judge the central characters. Is Caesar, in Shakespeare’s story, really a tyrant who needed to be killed? Is Brutus a noble political hero or a misguided egoist? With Professor Michael Dobson, you’ll discover how Shakespeare restructured this familiar story to make easy judgments impossible. Professor Dobson also discusses the Roman values that the characters strive to embody and how these values generate friendships, rivalries, and violence.
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