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Stratford Trip Essay on The Roman Actor Introduction The Roman Actor, a play containing plays which are crucial to the outer play’s development. A story about passion, romance, death, defiance and above all: power. Set in the time period where the world’s greatest empire was probably the Roman Empire and therefore power already played a major role within the Roman society. The ruler of such a vast Empire would, needless to say, have a hard time to keep his/her feet firmly planted in the ground and Caesar (the ruler) was floating way up high in the sky. Your standard megalomaniac, with a constant obsession that his power should be maintained and even if the possibility would arise that his power and desires would be in any threat he would have that possibility extinguished before it had time to take form. Quality of acting The role of Caesar would very obviously be a very difficult role to play since you would have to have the audience believe that you had enough in yourself to maintain such a great power. And your poise and stature would have to be so perfect so that you at least looked like a half decent Emperor. I would have never imagined that anyone could or would have portrayed Caesar in such a manner that it