“... This is another version of Cymbeline’s concluding vision, which imagines how ‘Th’imperial Caesar [will] unite/His favour with the radiant Cymbeline’ so that ‘A Roman and a British ensign [may] wave/Friendly together.’ As the names of Cymbeline’s central couple are intended to remind us, somewhere behind its action lies the fiction of New ...”

“... Also a man might go far, as he himself had done, by strict attention to plays called Lear and Julius Caesar, both much in demand by examiners. Lear was not so full of historical allusions as Julius Caesar; the book cost four annas, but could be bought secondhand in Bow Bazaar for two. Still more important than ...”

“... by half. Long ago the Atheist Society were rumoured to have taken as their motto a line from Julius Caesar: ‘There is no fellow in the firmament.’ Anyone else who believes anything strongly could do almost equally well. So it was only a matter of time before Shakespeare became a feminist. To do Dr French justice, though, she does not exactly ...”

“... Indian Juggernaut, which is likely at any point to crush the male heroes of the human race (Moses, Julius Caesar, Montezuma, Frederick the Great) who crowd meekly in her train. ‘The centuries pay homage to the perfect woman,’ says Gagarin’s caption tenderly, or drily. Julia watches a bloody duel fought over her, with the courteous interest of a lady ...”

“... would have been old enough to have lived alongside Dante; its great-great-grandparents alongside Julius Caesar. For thousands of years Greenland sharks have swum in silence, as above them the world has burned, rebuilt, burned again. The Greenland shark is the planet’s longest-lived vertebrate, but it was only recently that scientists were able to ...”

“... about the culture that bred Forrest and his muscular fan club. I went to a matinée of Julius Caesar, far more of a favourite in republican America than it has ever been in Britain, at the Belasco on West 44th, with Denzel Washington as Brutus. Just as in Forrest’s day, many of the audience talked unabashedly whenever their hero was absent ...”

“... will the world that followed them – with, say, the world of 800 AD – than with the world of Julius Caesar. Throughout the years dealt with in Kapelle’s book, the North was repeatedly raided from one side or the other, and much of the book explores the meaning of these raids and their effect on the society and institutions of the area. Late ...”

“... and exhilarating … a new standard for Shakespeare’ – even better than last year’s Julius Caesar, augurs well for the future … something Scottish next time, perhaps? And the Los Angeles Times: ‘Exciting and provocative beyond all expectations’ – it opens with a terrific night-time scene on the castle battlements, where a ghost ...”

“... generations after their extinction, and sealed off in each case by the assassination of the last Caesar. The satirist Juvenal explicitly announces that he can only (explicitly) attack the dead. Having to observe this iron rule has been known to drive principled ancient historians away from the cosmopolis and its court of satellites and on to socioeconomics ...”

“... cowboy comment. It signals the westernness of the West, the way the fringes in Mankiewicz’s film Julius Caesar, according to Roland Barthes, were the quick and surefire sign of Romanness. Everything is mythic in McCarthy, and at times he seems to smile at this himself. Not often.    What if they’re laid up somewhere fixin to drygulch ...”

“... in the deepest centre of hell he can chew for eternity on Brutus and Cassius, the betrayers of Julius Caesar, as well as on Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Christ. The miracle of the poem is the way that Dante’s eccentric and violently held opinions seem themselves to be subjected to the large-scale irony of his cosmic vision. They – like the ...”

“... liquid accents are signs of foreignness, as Roland Barthes once said the fringes in Mankiewicz’s Julius Caesar were signs of Romanness. Well, they are signs of more than foreignness. They are signs of impenetrable darkness, of minds beyond our reach: Mueller-Stahl because we don’t know what he wants, Cassel because he is mad and Mortensen because he ...”

“... until only one strongman was left standing, a chancer named Octavian, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, who had been the first Roman strongman openly to embrace indefinite one-man rule in at least four hundred years. Octavian, or Augustus as he became, did the same thing but better, offering peace to an exhausted world and veiling autocracy ...”

“... Rome in her modern story – partly about an attempted assassination of Mussolini, here called ‘Caesar’. She deliberately evokes the world of Julius and Augustus Caesar, where well-meaning, self-seeking senators slide nervously past the shadowy colonnades and smooth youths snatch ...”

“... whole gang of armed, overcoated men ran out of the forest and knifed the professor, as if he were Julius Caesar. None of this is in slow motion, but it feels as if it might be, since the whole thing is so lovingly photographed, as though the film were carefully constructing a ghastly but irresistible memory, finally building a real trauma. We get the ...”