Name: Julius Caesar
Rating: 3.626666666666666 (300 reviews)
ISBN: 9780198320272

William Shakespeare

Caesar returns from a triumphant battle to Rome, despite warning along the way, only to fall into the assassination plot set by Brutus, Cassius, and Casca.

Julius Caesar

JULIUS CAESAR; ED. BY MARVIN SPEVACK.

what a lovely little story :) dare i say i may love it more than hamlet? omg if i could dap up willy shakes i would!

Tali ⋆.˚🦋༘⋆

Bernard Lott

H. M. Hulme

Jasmine Stanway

I really enjoyed this play! It was funny and carried some interesting themes within. I had a bit of difficulty figuring out whether Brutus actually did love Caesar or if he was just trying to save face, but otherwise I followed it quite easily (with SparkNotes sitting beside me in case 👏🏻). I highly recommend reading Shakespeare plays with an audiobook/ dramatic reenactment of the dialogue, as it helps to clarify certain terms and meanings behind writing which might be difficult to understand for readers not well versed in Shakespearean language. I myself still prefer to read the play and the audiobook simultaneously as, being a play, it makes more sense when it’s being acted out.

with new and updated critical essays and a revised bibliography

The tragedy of Julius Caesar

elizabeth church

I don't know, this was good I guess. The play that my English class watched while reading this kinda screwed up my overall opinion of the book, just because the acting was so weird, and obviously it's Shakespeare so it wasn't the must fun read. But I liked annotating it... so there's that.

Piper Summer

After you get past the ye-olde style of writing found in William Shakespeare's play, you reveal a heartwretching story that tells a tale of a long dead emperor and his tragic death. It tells a lot about politics and the way your own self interest effects the way you see the world.

Meredith Boster

I read this book for a literature class this year, and I have to say, this was a pretty good book. I love plays, I love history, and I love learning about the history of countries and cities and things like that. I am very happy I have read this book.

Great tragedy based on Plutarch's account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony. Evil plotting, ringing oratory, high tragedy with Shakespeare's incomparable insight, dramatic power. Explanatory footnotes.

madina

my first ever shakespeare!!! (yes i know i'm so cultured) and i'm so, so happy that it was instead of romeo and juliet. love the characters, love the sword-stabby everything that went on in the end of the play, the themes present and tbh my heart kinda clenched when caesar said et tu, brute because like... even you, brutus?

MY HEART

T. S. Dorsch

Donald

This is a strange play. There are moments that are as good as it gets, but at the end I have no idea how it all comes together or what Shakespeare was trying to say.

Still thinking about the lions and the storm...

Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Coppélia Kahn The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.

John-Paul Teti

I don't *love* Shakespeare, but this play is, like much of his work, interesting and worth reading.

Emily

It was probably the best one we have read so far in my Shakespeare

*emmie*

Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS and a throng of CITIZENS.FLAVIUS.Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home.Is this a holiday? What, know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walkUpon a labouring day without the signOf your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?CARPENTER.Why, sir, a carpenter.MARULLUS.Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?What dost thou with thy best apparel on?You, sir, what trade are you?COBBLER.Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.MARULLUS.But what trade art thou? Answer me directly.COBBLER.A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.MARULLUS.What trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what trade?COBBLER.Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me; yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you.MARULLUS.What mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow!COBBLER.Why, sir, cobble you.FLAVIUS.Thou art a cobbler, art thou?COBBLER.Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl; I meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's matters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes: when they 5are in great danger, I recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork.FLAVIUS.But wherefore art not in thy shop today?Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?COBBLER.Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work. But indeed, sir, we make holiday to see Caesar, and to rejoice in his triumph.MARULLUS.Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oftHave you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have satThe livelong day with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.And when you saw his chariot but appear, Have you not made an universal shout, That Tiber trembled underneath her banksTo hear the replication of your soundsMade in her concave shores?And do you now put on your best attire?And do you now cull out a holiday?And do you now strew flowers in his way, That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?Be gone!Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plagueThat needs must light on this ingratitude.FLAVIUS.Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this faultAssemble all the poor men of your sort, Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tearsInto the channel, till the lowest streamDo kiss the most exalted shores of all.6[Exeunt CITIZENS.]See whether their basest metal be not mov'd;They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.Go you down that way towards the Capitol;This way will I. Disrobe the images, If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.MARULLUS.May we do so?You know it is the feast of Lupercal.FLAVIUS.It is no matter; let no imagesBe hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll aboutAnd drive away the vulgar from the streets;So do you too, where you perceive them thick.These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wingWill make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men, And keep us all in servil

Julius Caesar

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