Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare, Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Narrator: a full cast

Unabridged: 2 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2018

Categories: Fiction, Drama

Synopsis

TOO MUCH POWER IN ONE MAN’S HANDSJulius Caesar is a marked man. Adoring commoners celebrate his battlefield victories, but those higher up the Roman political ladder worry that his ambition has grown too large. On a stormy night full of alarming sights and ominous portents, Cassius persuades Caesar’s friend Brutus to help him with a momentous task: assassinate Caesar for the good of the Republic. But death doesn’t stop Caesar, whose spirit haunts the destinies of his friends and enemies, threatening the republican ideal for which they murdered him.Shakespeare’s political thriller explores powerbrokers’ strategies—honorable and not—and their unexpected, violent consequences.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, is the most widely known author in all of English literature and often considered the greatest. He was an active member of a theater company for at least twenty years, during which time he wrote many great plays. Plays were not prized as literature at the time and Shakespeare was not widely read until the middle of the eighteenth century, when a great upsurge of interest in his works began that continues today.

About Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Established in 1935, the Tony Award–winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival offers an eight-month season with a wide-ranging playbill of eleven productions, including Shakespeare, American classics, musicals, contemporary works, and world premieres. Plays originating at OSF have gone on to be produced by many regional theaters, and its productions have been recognized and honored nationally. In 2011, the Blackstone Audio and Oregon Shakespeare Festival collaboration of Hamlet was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

In the course of teaching high school sophomores for thirty years, I have read Julius Caesar more than thirty times, and I never grow tired of its richness of detail or the complexity of its characters. Almost every year, I end up asking myself the same simple question--"Whom do I like better? Cassi......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” Beware the Ides of March. Beware to those that......more

Goodreads review by Emma

4.5......more

Quotes

“A powerhouse of a production…This is one of the most brilliantly staged productions of a Shakespeare play I’ve ever seen. It’s that good.” Siskiyou Daily News on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s theatrical production of Julius Caesar

“OSF’s Julius Caesar is the kind of theater that will stick with you, open your eyes and keep you thinking.” Ashland Daily Tidings on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s production of Julius Caesar

Awards

  • Society of Voice Arts and Sciences Award
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