I am working on a Shakespeare e-course that connects the biblical covenant to Shakespeare’s famous tragedies. My first play is Julius Caesar. Below, I show how the play’s five acts mirror the five elements of the covenant.
Transcendence: Caesar has become a god, and Brutus and Cassius lament the republic’s dissolution.
Hierarchy: Rome has a choice: the republic of the conspirators or the empire of the Caesars.
Law: Roman law is in upheaval. The act begins and ends with the murder of a king and poet respectively.
Sanctions: The conspirators receive their judgment and are chased out of Rome.
Succession: The conspirators die. Octavius, the soon to be Emperor Augustus, gets the final lines of the play.
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