Fearing tyranny, Brutus and his fellow conspirators assassinate Rome's rising dictator and unleash civil war.
Books that mention Julius Caesar (23)
The Alienist by Caleb Carr: “they were learning English by studying Shakespeare. When I was born they’d just started, with Julius Caesar.”
The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwein: “Let not a traitor live! --SHAKESPEARE, _Julius Cæsar_.”
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger: “by Thomas Hardy, and Romeo and Juliet and Julius―”
Kim by Rudyard Kipling: “Also a man might go far, as he himself had done, by strict attention to plays called Lear and Julius Caesar, both much in demand by examiners.”
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper: “I shall remember: When C'sar says Do this, it is performed." --Julius Caesar”
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: “He said he was cast for a part in Julius Caesar, for that night”
Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: “Many plays, among them Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, have no sex complications: the thread of their action can be followed by children who could not understand a single scene of Mrs Warren's Profession or Iris.”
The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings: “I tried Hamlet and Julius Caesar once or twice, and gave it up”
The Last Man by Mary Shelley: “[22] Shakespeare—Julius Cæsar.”
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “Not surprisingly, in wartime, he plucked timely quotes from the Roman and history plays, including Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Henry V.”
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: “Shakespeare in Julius Caesar refers to "threatening clouds."”
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth: “he was talking about the play that he had put on for Annual Day the previous year: Julius Caesar—a typical university choice”
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell: “Harding, according to Russell, could have put on a toga and stepped onstage in a production of Julius Caesar.”
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks: “the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back”
Cosmos by Alexander von Humboldt: “Same passage listing Shakespeare's lost-analogy plays: Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet.”
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard: “this is the festival that the opening scene of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar re-creates”
Shame by Salman Rushdie: “They told me the story of a recent attempt to stage Julius Caesar at the University of P.”
The Charioteer by Mary Renault: “Laurie writes a school essay on Julius Caesar, and later quotes Antony's line over Caesar's body ("Down Hamlet, up Antony. Over thy wounds now do I prophesy").”
The Nature of Alexander by Mary Renault: “this must have been as traumatic as a flogging from Julius Caesar”
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk: “that play – you know, the one where that fortune-teller says to the Roman guy that he's going to get knifed... 'Julius Caesar.'”
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe: “While they behold a greater than themselves. JULIUS CAESAR”
The Pirate by Walter Scott: “----Thou hast described A hot friend cooling. Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. _Julius Caesar._”