From Wikipedia: Marcus Brutus is Caesar's close friend and a Roman praetor. Brutus allows himself to be cajoled into joining a group of conspiring senators because of a growing suspicion—implanted by Caius Cassius—that Caesar intends to turn republican Rome into a monarchy under his own rule. The...
The first image that comes to mind when I think of this play is Marlon Brando’s version of Marc Antony, when he delivers that wonderful speech which is now ingrained in my memory: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him….” When I first saw this versi...
Final body count = 6I've not read many of Shakespeare's plays dealing with actual history. This was not only a gripping story, but educational as well. A handful of Roman patricians plot to kill Julius Caesar, claiming that he is to be crowned king, which goes against the ideal of the Roman Republ...
This is the play I've taught most often over the past ten years. We offer it to our sophomores (or one can choose Midsummer Night's Dream). There are many really wonderful lines, incredible moments, though I think it loses something in the final two acts. We 20th century folks are such tough critics...
This one should have bored me because I hate political intrigues, but I really appreciated it when we read it in class. "Et tu brute" is a line that will never leave my consciousness fully.
I think Julius Caesar might be my favourite Shakespeare play. It's certainly one of his lesser-known efforts, and I daresay it's even underrated.I really enjoyed Caesar's characters. One problem with Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet et al. is that I wasn't interested in the leads. I have very little in common ...
I once performed the whole of Mark Anthony's "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" speech on the steps outside the Great Hall in Trinity College, Cambridge, wearing a bedspread as a toga and with a bucket chained over my head. It's a long story. I think I still know the speech by heart.
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