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Summary: I liked Julius Ceasar
Review: It was really educational, and it was also fun to read. I would mind reading it again. There was action and suspence threw the whole thing. Sure, it's hard to understand at times, but if your study it out and ponder it, I promise you will understand. I really enjoyed this book. I hope others will read it as well.
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Summary: A great play
Review: Julius Caesar is probably one of the better plays written by Shakespeare. This play if full of intrigue, action, betrayal, and emotion. This play is not very long (5 acts), which makes it a quick and exciting read. The characters are built nicely, and what is nice about this version of the book, is that it is easy to read, and any words that may be unfamiliar are defined on the opposite page, making it easy to look them up, and understand Shakespeare's difficult writing style. This is definately a play worth checking out. It's a fun read, and with plenty of helpful tools built in to help along the way.
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Summary: GOOD MORROW, JULUIS CAESAR
Review: Julius Caesar was a play of epic proportions. Even though much of it was drawn out and needed more action, other parts were emotionally inspirational and uplifting. The portrayal of the character's visages was very acurate, and almost made me wonder if these were the true emotions of the people who's story was told.
I was a bit confused with the self sacrifice made by Portia to convince Brutus to confess to her his inner feelings, and was disgusted with every single one of the conspirators
I suggest that you should read this book. yes. YOU SHOULD. Even if you are familiar with the muder and slaughter of Caeasr, this book gives you an inside look at the inspirations of the conspirators.
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Summary: Helpfulness
Review: Just want to say hi to all.
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Summary: Exciting and Fun to Read
Review: Next to "Macbeth," this is Shakespeare's most violent and brutal play. It's also very exciting and easy to understand. The only thing that scares me more than Banquo's ghost from "Macbeth" is the horrible thought of a person choking on hot coals.
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Summary: Roman political intrigue meets Elizabethan drama
Review: Not much is more sensational than the assassination of a major public figure; reading Act 3, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," in which the title character is stabbed and hacked to death by half a dozen conspirators, I feel like I'm depriving myself of a thrilling theatrical spectacle that must be seen to be appreciated. It is not necessary to know much about Caesar to sense the power of the drama; the play provides just enough background and information about Caesar's personality to suggest the reason for his murder and its consequences.In historical actuality, Caesar's murder was in some ways the pivot around which Rome transformed from a republic into an empire, and the play, which Shakespeare bases faithfully on Plutarch's histories, is ultimately about the political struggle that drives this transformation. The main conspirator against Caesar, and the one to deal him the final blow, is Brutus, who foresees nothing but tyranny if Caesar is made a king. There is something atavistic about his attitude, for he is descended from the family that was instrumental in turning the kingdom of Rome into a republic five centuries earlier. The scenes leading up to Caesar's murder build with forceful tension. We see Brutus discussing with his co-conspirator Cassius the dangers of Caesar's ascension and Cassius's sympathetic response, the conspirators meeting at night to plan their attack on Caesar in the Capitol, Caesar's disregard of a soothsayer's prophecies of doom, and then the bloody climax, even after which the drama loses not a bit of momentum: Brutus appeals to the people (the Plebeians) that the assassination of Caesar, whom they loved and did not at all consider a potential tyrant, was only for their own good; while Mark Antony, one of Caesar's triumvirate and an eloquent orator, cajoles the people with demagogic irony into suspecting the murder happened for no reason other than malice. Shakespeare fashions Caesar and Brutus more or less as two sides of the same denarius. Caesar is physically frail and deaf in one ear, but that doesn't preclude his triumphant success as a general and a military strategist. He is also pompous and fatuously vain -- there is nothing he fears more than to appear cowardly to his peers. Brutus is cut out of the same stock of hubris, but his motivations are purely altruistic. He loves Rome -- as a republic -- and will do anything to save it from a dictator, even kill a man he considers a friend and attempt to ally himself with foreign nations to wage a civil war against the armies of the now-empowered Roman triumvirate. Shakespeare brings all of this to light in a humanistic portrait of one of the most fascinating figures from history and his idealistic destroyer.
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Summary: Roman political intrigue meets Elizabethan drama
Review: Not much is more sensational than the assassination of a major public figure; reading Act 3, Scene 1 of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," in which the title character is stabbed and hacked to death by half a dozen conspirators, I feel like I'm depriving myself of a thrilling theatrical spectacle that must be seen to be appreciated. It is not necessary to know much about Caesar to sense the power of the drama; the play provides just enough background and information about Caesar's personality to suggest the reason for his murder and its consequences. In historical actuality, Caesar's murder was in some ways the pivot around which Rome transformed from a republic into an empire, and the play, which Shakespeare bases faithfully on Plutarch's histories, is ultimately about the political struggle that drives this transformation. The main conspirator against Caesar, and the one to deal him the final blow, is Brutus, who foresees nothing but tyranny if Caesar is made a king. There is something atavistic about his attitude, for he is descended from the family that was instrumental in turning the kingdom of Rome into a republic five centuries earlier. The scenes leading up to Caesar's murder build with forceful tension. We see Brutus discussing with his co-conspirator Cassius the dangers of Caesar's ascension and Cassius's sympathetic response, the conspirators meeting at night to plan their attack on Caesar in the Capitol, Caesar's disregard of a soothsayer's prophecies of doom, and then the bloody climax, even after which the drama loses not a bit of momentum: Brutus appeals to the people (the Plebeians) that the assassination of Caesar, whom they loved and did not at all consider a potential tyrant, was only for their own good; while Mark Antony, one of Caesar's triumvirate and an eloquent orator, cajoles the people with demagogic irony into suspecting the murder happened for no reason other than malice. Shakespeare fashions Caesar and Brutus more or less as two sides of the same denarius. Caesar is physically frail and deaf in one ear, but that doesn't preclude his triumphant success as a general and a military strategist. He is also pompous and fatuously vain -- there is nothing he fears more than to appear cowardly to his peers. Brutus is cut out of the same stock of hubris, but his motivations are purely altruistic. He loves Rome -- as a republic -- and will do anything to save it from a dictator, even kill a man he considers a friend and attempt to ally himself with foreign nations to wage a civil war against the armies of the now-empowered Roman triumvirate. Shakespeare brings all of this to light in a humanistic portrait of one of the most fascinating figures from history and his idealistic destroyer.
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Summary: Nature might say this was one of his finest works
Review: Of all the things that I have seen it seems to me most strange that our dear Shakespeare should write such wondrous plays that even those his critics call less than his greatest do shine so strongly in the eyes of mankind that they do stun us with their poetry and their wit their insight into human character and humanity. So is it with Julius Caesar .For Ceasar is a most political play in which dear Brutus and his conspirators do find a way on the Ides of March of doing away with great Caesar. But Brutus who as you know is Ceasar's dear friend and in the name of friendship and love of Rome did do great Ceasar away , is taken to task by Ceasar's other mignon dear Anthony who in his mindful farewell speech does set a standard for political rhetoric all mankind may have its eyes upon .For dear Anthony does let the Roman rabble know how much their Ceasar loved them , and does show how the ambition attributed to him by Brutus is nought but their imagining. And how great Caeasar loves them all. And so he makes not only the good works of Caeasar live after him but turns the general public against those very conspirators. And in this action and in what ensues the war which follows great Brutus too does come to his bitter end defeated by that Antony who allied with Ceasar's true heir makes a general reparation of the wrong . Oh what a wondrous play and what great speeches and immortal words .Think only of this , think only of such words as Antony's ' His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world / This was a man.
Oh great great play for all who would study the intrigues of Man and hear in great Shakespeare's declaiming the vanity and folly of all ambition's greatness while making their play immortal through his words.
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Summary: Big-Don's Review of a Shakespeare Classic
Review: Once again, Shakespeare writes another masterpiece!!! At times I was scared, and others I was nervous. I couldn't help but read this story all at once. I never set it down for a minute! I recommend this play for the light reader, or even for the hardcore Skakespeare fan!
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Summary: Intense
Review: Shakespeare gives a whole new face to history, transforming Caesar's assassination into a conspiracy, in which the conspirators have some reluctancy to join in. Brutus, for example, is deeply tormented, as Caesar is his friend and trusts him, but he is manipulated by Cassius, who makes Brutus believe that his duty to the people of Rome should be greater than friendship, and that the Romans want Caesar dead. The book is an exploration into the human psyche, and changing characters. I find it interesting that, though the play is called "Julius Caesar", its central character is Brutus, who has to deal with the guilt of betrayal versus what he feels is a duty to the people versus his love of Caesar. Intense, breathtaking, dramatic.
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