La mort de César, / tragédie en trois actes de Voltaire, avec les changemens fait par le citoyen Gohier, ministre de la Justice

A three-act tragedy set on Rome's Capitol dramatizes mounting tensions around a dominant ruler whose eastern ambitions and chosen heir unsettle allies and opponents. Intimate confrontations expose paternal longing, political calculation, and a stoic commitment to republican virtue embodied by a noble torn between private ties and public duty. Conversations about liberty, clemency, and ambition show how flattery, persuasion, and secret plotting reshape loyalties. As conspirators weigh honor and necessity, their decisions precipitate a fatal rupture, and the play follows the moral dilemmas, betrayals, and public consequences that flow from the leader's death.