Conspirators talk themselves into a political murder, then discover that one funeral speech can undo everything they planned.
Shakespeare's tragedy divides its sympathy carefully: Brutus acts from principle and gets it wrong, Cassius calculates and is proved right too late, and Mark Antony turns a crowd with a speech that never openly accuses anyone. The play moves from the Roman street to the Forum to the field at Philippi in five acts, and the verse is among the most quoted in English. This 168-page paperback presents the full text in a size that suits reading aloud or working through scene by scene.
What this edition offers:
• The complete five-act tragedy in a 168-page paperback
• Brutus, Cassius and Mark Antony, with the Forum speeches entire
• Verse set out clearly for reading aloud or staging in class
• A fixture on school and college Shakespeare syllabi
Written for students, teachers and theatre readers, published by Fingerprint Publishing and available at Boipoka.