false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179362662m/908981.jpg 13006 207 In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings -- "Beware the ides of March" -- and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead. 2796883 book 1601 Julius Caesar total:16396|5:3128|4:5270|3:5772|2:1850|1:376| 16396 58112 19210 445 4 20 false false Mon Dec 29 10:53:54 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 11:10:03 -0800 2008
BRUTUS: I love Caesar!
CASSIUS: He's a power-hungry bastard. I think we should kill him.
BRUTUS: Dude, we totally should.
DECIUS: Happy Ides of March, Caesar. Ready to go to the Senate?
CAESAR: I dunno. My wife just had a dream about you and ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1976 Sat Nov 29 18:10:28 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 26 09:51:28 -0700 2009
]]> 3 4 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Tue Jun 23 17:01:46 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 20:43:17 -0700 2009 Macbeth, with lots and lots of daggers and bloodshed. I don't have a good literary reference to how Julius Caesar got killed by a teacher.

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Julius Caesar tested my abilities. It also unviersally made...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Dec 28 08:19:46 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 08:22:56 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Aug 22 16:17:06 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 16:29:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 03 07:03:58 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 07:16:20 -0700 2009 anything in the play, so this is essentially my first reading of it.
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This time around I was struck by a few things:

1- How much this play is about the power of rhetoric, especially rhetoric used to persuade. Cassius persuading Brutus, Antony persuading the crowd. Brutus' lack of rhetoric that indicates his guilelessness. Compare...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 09:55:42 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 11:25:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 28 20:27:36 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 05:13:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 13:07:32 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 15:15:17 -0800 2009
I'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 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 28 11:20:10 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 09:24:00 -0700 2009
A play about friendship, betrayal, love, hate, ambition and most defin...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Tue Feb 03 07:33:31 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 07:33:31 -0800 2009 Standard 9 and I'm at school with a boy that suffers from grand mal epilepsy. We didn't know this until we were made to watch the video of Julius Caesar. Just when all the characters were gleefully pushing their knives into the old man, blood spurting all over, Kevin walks out. We...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 31 00:48:26 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 00:52:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 08 05:27:48 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 05:29:03 -0700 2009
César m'aimait, je le pleure.

Il connut le succès, je m'en réjouis. Il fut vaillant, je l'honore.

Mais il fut ambitieux et je l'ai tué.

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So, with my bias noted, I have to say I loved this read. I think Mark Antony's eulogy may be one of the greatest speeches ever. While the play is marked by so...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 14:44:33 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 12:57:30 -0700 2009 1 Mark Antony is the coolest person in the whole thing. I mean, Holy Bible! He totally turned the whole city against the conspirators...and he was just winging it! Yeah, he's cool.
And I guess most people like Brutus (Freedom fighter ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:12:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:23:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 15:11:44 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 15:17:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 16 06:18:52 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 06:19:39 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=908981