{"id":30912,"date":"2023-11-29T08:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=253125"},"modified":"2023-11-30T01:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:11:35","slug":"shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare: Past Master | 5. Julius Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Islam Issa charts what the tragic history play tells us about the ancient world \u2013 and the insights it offers into the politics of the playwright\u2019s own era <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Matt Elton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at 07:35 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>It may be set in ancient Rome, with a cast of real-life characters \u2013 yet William Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Julius Caesar<\/em> also tells us a great deal about the machinations of the Elizabethan court. Islam Issa shares his thoughts on how the play offers a window into the politics of the playwright\u2019s era.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-253125-6\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE3-7f49451.mp3?_=6\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE3-7f49451.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/11\/HistoryExtraShakespeareE3-7f49451.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<section class=\"highlight \"> <div class=\"highlight__content editor-content\"> <p>Want to listen to more episodes? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/podcast-series\/shakespeare-past-master-a-historyextra-podcast-series\/\">Listen to the rest of our series here<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Islam Issa charts what the tragic history play tells us about the ancient world \u2013 and the insights it offers into the politics of the playwright\u2019s own era <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30913,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/11\/shakespeare-past-master-5-julius-caesar.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Islam Issa charts what the tragic history play tells us about the ancient world \u2013 and the insights it offers into the politics of the playwright\u2019s own era","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/30912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}