This story can be seen as an example of a conflict in which everyone is both right and wrong. In the play, Julius Caesar and his supporters confront a group of conspirators, including Brutus, Cassius, and Casca. The plotters claim that they are acting out of love for Rome, not hatred for Caesar. They are convinced they are on the right side of history and see themselves as Rome's saviors.The conspirators must defeat the incipient tyranny now or risk losing liberty for centuries. To use an anachr...

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Just when I thought I was beginning to 'get' Shakespeare along comes a 1 out of 12 in my opinion play, that is Julius Caesar! Harsh?One of the playwright's Roman History set plays - this one centres around the moral dilemma that Brutus has on joining the Cassius led conspiracy to murder Julius Caesar supposedly for the good of Rome. Following Caesar's death, Rome is thrust into a period of civil war, and the republic the balancing the demands of honour, friendship and Rome itself! It sounds so g...

هربار که با خواهرم به کتابفروشی میرفتیم، دم همان ورودی از هم جدا می‌شدیم. او به طرف قفسه‌ی کتابهای نوجوان می‌رفت و من به تازه‌های نشر سر می‌زدم. من همیشه گیج و مبهوت بین آن‌همه کتاب چرخ می‌خوردم، ورق می‌زدم، می‌خواندم، و دست آخر کتابی به پیشنهادِ پسر فروشنده‌ی مو فرفری می خریدم. اما خواهرم تکلیفش روشن بود. همیشه اولین انتخابش شکسپیر بود و بعد هرچیز دیگری که بنظرش جذاب و خواندنی می‌آمد، مثل دارن_شان یا بچه‌ی چلمن، داستانهای ترسناک...به خانه نرسیده شروع میکرد به خواندن، گاهی بلند و بیشتر زمزمه کنا...

'You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!'

💜reread for my Shakespeare classI really do love this play but I was also in it, with an Overly Large Yet Worth It Role, and at this point I have no energy to have thoughts on it, we'll talk about why I love this show and then we'll end with the long list of terrible memes (also why the FUCK did I give this four stars. it's a five goodnight I love this underrated play)WHY THIS PLAY IS FUCKING AWESOMEOkay, first of all, and no one else cares: it's pretty damn historically accurate as Shakespe...

The most powerful, famous man in Roman history, her greatest conqueror, loved by the adoring , poor population, of Rome, ( and Cleopatra, also) that has brought glory and prosperity, too, the army will follow anywhere he leads, certain victory and riches to the soldiers, the Senate has given numerous awards to him, Rome's enemies tremble at the name of the mighty Caesar, but of course nobody is loved by all, men are small, petty, and jealous, why should he be above them, (fearing he, becoming Ki...

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” Beware the Ides of March. Beware to those that have aspirations to rule. You may encounter many enemies. People who will thwart your plans. People quite possibly afraid of your genius. People suffering from delusions of grandeur. I always say kee...

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.

In the course of teaching high school sophomores for thirty years, I have read Julius Caesar more than thirty times, and I never grow tired of its richness of detail or the complexity of its characters. Almost every year, I end up asking myself the same simple question--"Whom do I like better? Cassius or Brutus?"--and almost every year my answer is different from what it was the year before. On one hand, we have Cassius, the selfish, manipulative conspirator who, after the assassination, shows h...