Political calculation, friendship and public rhetoric collide in Shakespeare's Roman tragedy, here in a format small enough to carry anywhere.
The play examines how people justify a drastic decision and how quickly a crowd can be turned by whoever speaks next, with the consequences playing out well past the central act. This compact edition prints the complete text, which makes it a practical reading copy to keep beside an annotated classroom volume.
How it reads:
• Full text in a trim size built for bags and pockets
• Two celebrated forum speeches presented in their dramatic context
• A play often studied for persuasion, ethics and civic conflict
• A clean reading copy to pair with a heavily marked study edition
Practical for students, debate coaches and theatre readers, stocked in the Pocket Classics format by Boipoka.