ABSTRACT
The focus here is on III.ii. of Julius Caesar – the scene after Shakespeare’s representation of the assassination and the one in which Brutus and Antony speak about the death of Caesar to the Roman people. The chapter also concentrates on Shakespeare’s art of persuasion in terms of speaker and audience, patrician and plebeian, poetry and politics, that is how Shakespeare’s dramatic poetry is distinct for each character and situation. What follows is a close reading, a case study in Shakespeare political theatre, tragedy in history – that concentrates on the whole scene, Brutus and Antony, and the errors of judgement and political strategy that Brutus commits.
