Mark Antony speaking at the funeral of his assassinated friend Julius Caesar in the Shakespeare play by the same name My readers, alert as usual, may be wondering why this essay is entitled ‘The Case ...
From 27 B.C.E. to 180 C.E., the Roman Empire saw a period of relative tranquility and prosperity now known as the Pax Romana ...
September would have been Leonard Cohen’s 90th birthday. So a biographical tome from a French university lecturer, who has ...
Baroque music and silent movies? Perhaps an unexpected combination, but not one that seems bizarre. How about silent movies and Shakespeare? The Bard without speech seems almost a contradiction in ...
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was first performed in 1599 and it continues to be reinterpreted by theater directors up to this ...
The assassination of Julius Caesar was reenacted in Rome at the exact same place where it had taken place 2,000 years ago.
Cicero was the greatest orator in Roman history, born into the upper echelons of Roman society at a time when the Senate (the ‘S' in ‘SPQR') was still the final word in how that great civilisation ...
I asked an array of people, whether physicians, small business owners, or young mothers, to reflect on the five-year ...
Beware the Ides of March? Charles A. Dana Professor of English Emerita Cynthia Lewis explores how prophets in Shakespeare's ...
Tennessee Shakespeare Company (TSC) will bring G. Bernard Shaw’s masterwork of spiritual, political, and human inquiry, Saint ...
Walsh also appeared to suggest that being inside the Great Pyramid made him stop believing that it could generate electricity ...
Bradley Walsh has told how he thought he was "going to prove" that the pyramids in Egypt were built by aliens before investigating the conspiracy theory as part of a new show.