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Julius Caesar • 2013 - Chicago Shakespeare Theater

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written by<br />

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE<br />

directed by JONATHAN MUNBY<br />

ulius <strong>Caesar</strong>, written 400<br />

years ago about people living<br />

2,000 years ago, has the<br />

danger of seeming very far away. Of<br />

having very little similarity to us. Of being<br />

about things we don’t think about<br />

much. But its words sound too familiar<br />

and don’t go away. “Freedom! Liberty!<br />

Tyranny is dead!"—we’ve heard them<br />

all as we watch pictures flash across<br />

the television screen. <strong>Shakespeare</strong><br />

shows us power: power that some<br />

have, that others fear—and want—and<br />

that a mass of people searching for a<br />

hero has given away. We ought to recognize<br />

in <strong>Shakespeare</strong>’s Rome some<br />

of the most difficult questions we confront<br />

living in our own politically divisive<br />

world. ✪

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