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. On one hand, we have Cassius, the selfish, manipulative conspirator who, after the assassination, shows h 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. *turns to audience* HEY, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? Hey you, hold my sword while I impale myself.īRUTUS: Let's see: Rome is being destroyed, all my friends have either been killed or comitted suicide, my wife just poisoned herself, and I'm about to be captured by enemy soldiers. BOOGEDY!ĬASSIUS: GOD DAMMIT WE'RE LOSING THE WAR! I AM OVER THIS SHIT. I'm going to see you a second time, by the way. Uh.BOOGEDY!ĬAESAR'S GHOST: Uh.that's it? Not even an "eek?" Fine, whatever. I'm not even joking.*īRUTUS: Man, ruling Rome was a lot more fun when we weren't being invaded by Octavius.ĬAESAR'S GHOST: BOOGEDY BOOGEDY BOOGEDY! AVENGE.oh, wrong play. but Caesar was generous and humble and basically god on earth, and they totally killed him in cold blood.ĬROWD: RAAAAAAA! KILL THEM ALL!!! *grabs torches and pitchforks and kills fucking everyone, including a random poet who has the same name as one of the conspirators. Now to hold a huge funeral and let his best friend deliver the eulogy to the large, violence-prone mob.ĪNTONY: So the guys who killed Caesar aren't bad guys, really.ĪNTONY. *Caesar skips off to the Senate, confident in the knowledge that he's in a Shakespeare play, where dreams don't predict anything and main characters never get offed*ĬAESAR: Hey, why didn't anyone tell me it was Bring A Dagger To Work Day?ĬASSIUS: Good, he's dead. My wife just had a dream about you and the rest of the senators washing their hands in my blood, so I think I'm going to call in sick today.ĭECIUS: Okay, I'll just tell the guys that you're a pussy who lets his wife tell him what to do. Ready to go to the Senate?ĬAESAR: I dunno. I think we should kill him.ĭECIUS: Happy Ides of March, Caesar. CAESAR: I'll get Julius Caesar, abridged:ĬASSIUS: He's a power-hungry bastard. DECIUS: Okay, I'll just tell the guys that you're a pussy who lets his wife tell him what to do.
My wife just had a dream about you and the rest of the senators washing their hands in my blood, so I think I'm going to call in sick today. Ready to go to the Senate? CAESAR: I dunno. Julius Caesar, abridged: BRUTUS: I love Caesar! CASSIUS: He's a power-hungry bastard. The new edition achieves the feat of unprecedented clarity of presentation without any cuts to the original text or the detailed explanations.more Finally, the entire text has been redesigned and reset to enhance readability. In addition, the notes and the introductory material have been completely revised in line with new research and in order to
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