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Summary: summaries excellent; easy to follow and study afterwards
Review: i definitely recommend this book. i am a sophomore in high school, and i usually despise reading shakespearean works, but this book spells out everything for you and has review questions in the back to help you study. A++
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Summary: Extremely helpful!
Review: I like Shakespeare, but find his language hard to decipher at times. Standard texts have footnotes to help you to understand how he uses certain words, but after looking up a few dozen of these, I find myself starting to lose the thread of the story line. The "Shakespeare Made Easy" approach has been a godsend for me. Now, whenever I run into a difficult passage, I can glance over to the other side of the book and read the same passage in plain English. A light bulb blinks on, and I say, "Aha! That's what this means!" Unfamiliar words are instantly translated for me as I see them in the context of a passage which I now understand fully. I've read Julius Caesar three or four times previously, but never so fluidly and with such enjoyment and understanding as I just did with the help of the "Shakespeare Made Easy" book.
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Summary: Julius Caesar
Review: I loved "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet" and other Shakespeare novels, so I thought that I might try a history Shakespeare had written for my advanced English class. However, I wasn't very impressed. I had thought that Shakespeare's beautiful poetry would add much needed excitement to the book, but, alas, it prevailed. However, if one does not try to interpret what Shakespeare is saying and just reads the words aloud in rhythm, it sounds so eloquent and put together. Thus, I give it three stars.
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Summary: Shakespear is Wonderful
Review: I recently read this book in my 9th grade english class and to tell you the truth I was amazed by this piece of littiture that William Shakespear has written. This book impressed me so much I am going to read more of his work. This book is a tradgey on Julius Caesar. This book is basically about killing Caesar and when Caesar gets killed by the conspirators the readers get to read about Mark Anthony's revenge.
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Summary: The Deadly Game of Politics
Review: I think is one of Skakespheare's best plays because it contains some of the best monologues in it. Who can forget Mark Antony's speech to the mob as he deftly manipulates them into rioting and turning against Brutus? Or Brutus' soul searching monologue as he decides to kill Caesar saying that he has civil war inside himself. Or Cassius's effeminate whining about how Brutus does not trust him anymore? Or Caesar's mentioning that Cassius is too skinny and reads too much and therefore he does not trust him. The characters also stand out colorfully. We get the pompous Caesar referring to himself in the 3rd person all the time. We have the conniving and corrupt Cassius who overthrows Caesar for all the wrong reasons, mainly envy. We have the honorable Brutus who kills Caesar because he can't stand tyrants. We have the smooth-talking Mark Antony who slyly plots against the rebels. These characters interplay well with one another, giving a lot of life and energy to the play. And then there's the almost politically nihilistic theme in which people plot and scheme for power or for idealistic reasons, but in the end this scheming benefits no one--civil war starts and lot of blood is shed. One gets the impression that Skakespheare does not like tyrannical autocracy but neither does he like the mob rule of democracy. He likes an noble aristocracy that looks after the common good, not just themselves. But Brutus is the only noble comes close to being noble and he ends up dead. Caesar is tyrannical and pompous, Cassius is mere conniver, and Mark Antony is just a playboy that is upset that his friend Caesar is dead.
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Summary: Great Stuff
Review: I thought that this was one of the best plays, shakespeare or otherwise that i have ever read. i could feel the pain and remorse of brutus see ceasar's tragic flaws and root against the bad guys. i thought antony was a very good man and that he cared for brutus and that he realized that he was one of the last real romans.
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Summary: This book really helped me boost my GPA!
Review: I used this book along with the original to help me study for my test on Julius Caesar. I was having trouble understanding it, but this book put it into terms I could understand, without losing the actual meaning! I really recommend it!
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Summary: Noble Words--Ignoble Deeds
Review: I've read the play several times, studied it in school, and seen it produced, but never have I been so struck by the contrast between word and deed as when I listened to this audiocassette. At every point the Romans speak beautifully of honor, virtue, courage, and other noble qualities. If we listened only to their words, we might think them noble, but when we see their deeds, we find the play thick with irony. The speakers must either be hypocrits or have no self-objectivity. Portia, Brutus' wife, emerges as the only admirable character, but the play still commands our full attention. Mighty words are match by mighty deeds, but noble thoughts are checked by ignoble actions. When Antony pronounces Brutus "the noblest Roman of them all", he merely recognizes Brutus as the best of a bad lot. Regardless of the villainy of the characters, the play is superb, and audio may well be the best medium for fully enjoying it.
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Summary: A great place to start
Review: If you are going to read a little Shakespeare, JULIUS CAESAR is a great place to start. It is the only play by Shakespeare that I understood in high school, and most of my 10th-grade students seem to understand it. Give it a shot.
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Summary: The best scholarly edition available
Review: In the race among the major Shakespeare editors (Arden Third Series, Oxford, Cambridge), Arden has seriously lagged behind. Not so anymore. Prof. Daniell's edition is thorough, smart, concise, eminently readable and often highly provocative. His introductory material not only sums up four hundred years of thinking about the play both in the study and on the stage, but it also adds new insights and dimensions. Tiny criticisms: some of the explicatory material in the notes is a little to British for an American reader to comprehend, and one or two editorial choices ("Is tomorrow, boy, the first of March?") are simply wrongheaded. But these never seriously mar what is, and will remain, the best scholarly edition of JC for years to come.
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