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A review by buddhafish
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
4.0
168th book of 2020.
A good play, despite some weird historical inaccuracies, mostly the striking of clocks, which of course, the Romans did not have. Also, Romans in hats! Probably not wrong, but have you ever seen a Roman depicted in a hat, that isn’t a helmet?
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare omits certain factors to help the play, and I think they do. The dates of events are reshuffled a bit, it seems, and Octavius’ adoption and name-changing is removed, presumably to make it simpler. Changing his name to Octavian half-way through is an unnecessary detail. I’m not a giant Shakespeare fan, nor do I particularly enjoy reading plays, but I did enjoy the second half of this. The start was rather slow and boring, but once Caesar was murdered (which happened sooner than I thought it was going to), my enjoyment heightened. Mark Anthony’s speech is quite brilliant, I’ll admit. As for the plot, well, we know what happens, don’t we? I spent a year studying Cicero and his body of writing, so I was pleased about his (brief) appearance.
Mark Anthony
Perhaps I'll add some more to this soon.
A good play, despite some weird historical inaccuracies, mostly the striking of clocks, which of course, the Romans did not have. Also, Romans in hats! Probably not wrong, but have you ever seen a Roman depicted in a hat, that isn’t a helmet?
Julius Caesar
Shakespeare omits certain factors to help the play, and I think they do. The dates of events are reshuffled a bit, it seems, and Octavius’ adoption and name-changing is removed, presumably to make it simpler. Changing his name to Octavian half-way through is an unnecessary detail. I’m not a giant Shakespeare fan, nor do I particularly enjoy reading plays, but I did enjoy the second half of this. The start was rather slow and boring, but once Caesar was murdered (which happened sooner than I thought it was going to), my enjoyment heightened. Mark Anthony’s speech is quite brilliant, I’ll admit. As for the plot, well, we know what happens, don’t we? I spent a year studying Cicero and his body of writing, so I was pleased about his (brief) appearance.
Mark Anthony
Perhaps I'll add some more to this soon.