Julius Caesar and Related Readings Author:McDougal-Littell Editorial Staff In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings -- "Beware the ides of March" -- and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ir... more »onies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.
Julius Caesar / play by William Shakespeare --
Life of Caesar / biography by Suetonius; translated by Robert Graves --
Epitaph on a tyrant / poem by W.H. Auden --
News flash: political assassinations / news report by Tom Wicker --
Back there / television play by Rod Serling --
For Malcolm, a year after / poem by Etheridge Knight --
Eulogy to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / speech by Robert F. Kennedy --
Agony of victory / feature article by William Oscar Johnson --
Tiger who would be king / fable by James Thurber« less