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Shakespeare’s contemporaries would have spotted the playwright’s attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeare’s plays, Julius Caesar remains one of his most well-loved historical tragedies.
Titulli: Julius Caesar
Origjinali: Julius Caesar
Gjinia: Tragjedi
Autori: William Shakespeare
Shtëpia botuese: Collins Classics
Viti: 2013
Fq. 135
Pesha: 0.094 kg
ISBN: 978-0-00-792546-9
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Shakespeare’s contemporaries would have spotted the playwright’s attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeare’s plays, Julius Caesar remains one of his most well-loved historical tragedies.
