Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley and David Morrissey star as Brutus, Cassius and Mark Antony, respectively, in Nicholas Hytner's new staging of 'Julius Caesar' at London's Bridge Theatre. By Leslie ...

Marcus Junius Brutus was a Roman politician, leader, orator—and one of history’s most infamous assassins. Why did he launch a ...

It’s astounding that so few fans of martial sagas like “The Lord of the Rings” and “Game of Thrones” have found their way to the narratives of the Greek and Roman historians. In these works, too, one ...

Mark Antony, a jockish favourite of Caesar’s, is not invited, but, fatally underestimated by the naive Brutus, seizes his chance to foment civil war in the power vacuum that follows the putsch and ...

Laurels are so last year. Today’s Caesars come crowned with combovers. In Central Park last year, the Public Theater’s Oskar Eustis caused controversy by drawing too definite a line between Rome’s ...

A long-standing debate about whether Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a history play or a tragedy has been resolved by Daniel Sullivan’s production starring Denzel Washington: It is neither; it is a ...