In William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar there is major difference between two of the characters Brutus and Mark Antony Brutus was very honorable and Antony was very persuasive. When Brutus spoke at Caesar’s funeral he appealed to the people’s logic and Antony spoke to the emotions of th...
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Romeo and Juliet, play by William Shakespeare, written about 1594–96 and first published in an unauthorized quarto in 1597. The appeal of the young hero and heroine is such that they have become, in the popular imagination, the representative of star-cr
As You Like It, five-act comedy by William Shakespeare, written and performed about 1598–1600 and first published in the First Folio of 1623. Shakespeare based the play on Rosalynde (1590), a prose romance by Thomas Lodge. Learn more about the play in t
A Midsummer’s Night Dream, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written about 1595–96. With its multilayered examination of love and its vagaries, it has long been one of the most popular of his plays. Learn about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, inc
The Taming of the Shrew, comedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, written sometime in 1590–94 and first printed in the First Folio in 1623. The play describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, who is deter
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