"JULIUS CAESAR”
LECTURE TO STUDENTS That Shakespeare wished to com.-., to bis hearers in "Julius Caesar” his belief that the condition of a country cannot be improved but rather is madworse by political plottings, violence and assassinations, was the opinion expressed hv Rev. W Jellie in a le. tore to w.e.a. students at the I 1 a Grammar School last evening. The play was a warning voice to those who. in the bitter struggle between Protestantism and Catholicism during the last years of the sixteenth century, sought, by attempts at regicide and violent measures, to change the Government of England. The source from which Shakespeare derived his characters and incidents is Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s “Lives,” and Mr. Jellie's rendering of parallel passages trom the works of Plutarch and of Shakespeare admirably illustrated the difference between prose and poetry of the highest order.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 114, 4 August 1927, Page 13
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144"JULIUS CAESAR” Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 114, 4 August 1927, Page 13
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