It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
A study in ambition, duty and political intrigue compressed into 16 high-voltage scenes.
We chart the events leading up to Caesar's assassination and the civil war that follows. We ask is Caesar a tyrant or the greatest of men? We wonder whether his assassination is defensible or a disaster?
Shakespeare brings his acute sense of humanity to this story and shows us characters that are all morally ambiguous. Are there any villains in this play? Maybe not, and that is what makes this play unique among Shakespeare's tragedies.
