As a row of women, led by prison guards, are marched onto a sparse and industrial set, the Julius Caesar that audiences are familiar with is revived and remodelled in Phyllida Lloyd’s adaptation of ...

On Monday evening, this season’s free production of Shakespeare in the Park’s “Julius Caesar” will open to an unusual quantity of attention. As audiences beyond the Delacorte Theatre have already ...

It’s astounding that so few fans of martial sagas like “The Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones” have found their way to the narratives of the Greek and Roman historians. In these works, too, one ...

On Feb. 15, in the year 44 BC, Julius Caesar, the all-powerful ruler of Rome, visited a soothsayer named Spurinna, who “predicted the future by examining the internal organs of sacrificial animals,” ...

He’s got the month of July and a salad named after him. Today’s lesson looks at one of the most powerful rulers of all time. Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 12, 100 B.C., to Gaius Julius Caesar ...

Julius Caesar:What is now amiss? Metellus Cimber:Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar, Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat an humble heart. Julius Caesar:I must prevent thee, Cimber.

Julius Caesar, an accomplished military general and cunning politician, is perhaps remembered as one of the most consequential figures who rose to power during the Roman Republic – and led to its ...

Famous ancient Stoic Porcia Cato was a woman of firm political convictions. She helped her husband Brutus see the plot to the very end. In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Portia, shown here in an 1840 ...

Despite Julius Caesar having spared his life, Marcus Junius Brutus murdered him. In Caesar’s final moments, surrounded by conspirators, there was no more painful stab wound than that inflicted by ...

MARK THEODORE:'"Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat a humble heart–"' JEFFERY KISSOON:"I must prevent thee, Cimber." JEFFERY KISSOON:'Historically, Caesar was killed, so Shakespeare had to show ...