Julius CaesarPenguin UK, 07.04.2005 - 272 Seiten 'Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war, |
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... politicians win and lose power according to their ability to inuence the Roman people with their rhetoric. Brutus the conspirator and Caesar the ruler whom he helps to assassinate both understand that, in politics, a course of action ...
... his life, tries to get his own way. Politicians' speeches collapse not only under the weight of their own inherent overstatement or illogicality but also through their failure to misrepresent reality convincingly enough. Explaining his.
... political future but also in the play's management of its audience. So far we have witnessed rhetoric that is at best semi-public, directed at particular groups of people – petitioners, colleagues, potential enemies – rather than at a ...
... political action: like the onstage audience, we listen and respond to what is being said; the staging makes us, as it were, honorary members of the crowd, bringing us to a new degree of engagement. But of course we are not really Roman ...
... political traditions. But the speech also distances Cassius more subtly, by inserting a sliver of irony between him and the Elizabethan audience: his words carry a meaning unintended by the character and irrelevant to the action, but ...