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Il grand'uomo, che fu prima di tutto politico (e che unicamente come tale è visto dai grandi suoi contemporanei, almeno all'inizio della sua sfolgorante vita) della parte democratica negli anni della gioventù, che scala le vette del potere romano fra errori, intrighi, fulminazioni e, ovviamente, un oceano di debiti. Tra tutti gli squali che nuotano nell'acquario, è tuttavia quello che ha realmente e maggiormente a cuore la sorte del popolo minuto, non attraverso elemosine sotto forma di distribuzione di grano, ma con l'obiettivo di risolvere una volta per tutte l'annosa questione agraria - e Brecht, da buon comunista, ne ha in fondo umana simpatia, come ce l'ha dell'altro grande sconfitto di questo racconto, ossia ovviamente Catilina e la sua mancata rivoluzione. Plutarch,Parallel Lives, The Life of Crassus, 4.1; also Cic. Scaur. fragment at Ascon.27G=23C, with Asconius' comment on the passage.

This statement by an unknown author has also been wrongly attributed to William Shakespeare, but there are no records of it prior to late 2001. It has been debunked at Snopes.com Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently bankrupt businessman who became too big for the banks to allow him to fail – as his former banker claims? Did he stumble into power while trying to make money, as suggested by the diary of his former slave? Across these different versions of Caesar's career in the political and economic life of Rome, Brecht wryly contrasts the narratives of imperial progress with the reality of grasping self-interest, in a sly allegory that points to the Weimar Republic and perhaps even to our own times. Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.

As Jameson among others has stressed, "Brecht is also ‘Brecht’"—collective and collaborative working methods were inherent to his approach. This 'Brecht' was a collective subject that "certainly seemed to have a distinctive style (the one we now call 'Brechtian') but was no longer personal in the bourgeois or individualistic sense." During the course of his career, Brecht sustained many long-lasting creative relationships with other writers, composers, scenographers, directors, dramaturgs and actors; the list includes: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, Ruth Berlau, Slatan Dudow, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Paul Dessau, Caspar Neher, Teo Otto, Karl von Appen, Ernst Busch, Lotte Lenya, Peter Lorre, Therese Giehse, Angelika Hurwicz, and Helene Weigel herself. This is "theatre as collective experiment [...] as something radically different from theatre as expression or as experience." Caesar was a logical man; and the heir of Caesar displayed coherence in thought and act when he inaugurated the proscriptions and when he sanctioned clemency, when he seized power by force, and when he based authority upon law and consent.

The first car shot may have appeared to be an arbitrary selection of arbitrary events; the point of the second car shot, taken in the same way and possibly on the same day, is that none of what we are seeing is arbitrary. All of it is determined by the kinds of calculations we heard outlined in the preceding interviews; calculations about how to maximise profits, and calculations about how the consequences of these calculations are to be survived. The interviews are theory or cause, the city is practice or effect. Jean-Marie Straub, film director, screenwriter and producer, born 8 January 1933; died 19 November 2022 B. Brecht bu romanı 6 kitap olarak planlanmış ancak 4 tanesini yazmış ki dördüncüsü de tamamlanmamış. Brecht Latince olarak orijinlerinden okuduğu çok sayıda tarih kitaplarından elde ettiği kapsamlı bilgi birikimiyle gayri resmi bir tarihi roman kurgulamış.T]he rule of Caesar, although during its establishment it gave no little trouble to its opponents, still, after they had been overpowered and had accepted it, they saw that it was a tyranny only in name and appearance, and no cruel or tyrannical act was authorized by it; nay, it was plain that the ills of the state required a monarchy, and that Caesar, like a most gentle physician, had been assigned to them by Heaven itself. Therefore the Roman people felt at once a yearning for Caesar, and in consequence became harsh and implacable towards his murders...