The opera is set in Egypt under the joint rule of Cleopatra and her younger brother Ptolemy in 48 B.C. Julius Caesar has defeated his enemy Pompey but is outraged when Pompey’s ally Ptolemy kills ...
JULIUS CAESAR: THE MAKING OF A DICTATOR is a new three-part BBC-produced historical docudrama that explores how the nearly five-centuries-old Roman democracy was overthrown in just 16 years. The story ...
Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Dadie Rylands, the late English lecturer at the University of Cambridge, once expressed the opinion that King Lear was unquestionably ...