“JULIUS CAESAR”
W.E.A. LECTURE In his lecture to W.E.A. students last evening at the Old Grammar School, the Rev. W. Jellie thoroughly analysed the materials and formation of Shakespeare’s historical drama, “Julius Caesar,” the story of the hatching of a conspiracy, its culmination in murder and its extinction by the death of the conspirators at the Battle of Philippi. In the opinion of the lecturer, this was Shakespeare’s way of expressing his belief that assassination as a means of political freedom would always prove a failure, even if supported by the idealistic uprightness and honesty of purpose of a Brutus and the shrewd commonsense and executive ability displayed by Cassius. A fine reading of the scene containing the funeral orations of Antony and Brutus concluded the lecture.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 120, 11 August 1927, Page 13
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