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Julius Caesar

Advantages: deep meaning, excellent character development, many links between various parts of the play
Disadvantages: language

Julius Caesar is a play written by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in the very late 16th century. Despite being titled "Julius Caesar", the protagonist of the play is actually Marcus Brutus. The play takes us through the build-up and the aftermath of Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March, and gives great insight into the mindset and philosophies of the stoic Brutus. Julius Caesar is a play that is very deep, and the characters are developed extremely well. The audience/reader is able to appreciate the reasons why the conspirators went through with their plan, and Shakespeare shares with us the different thoughts between the two main conspirators Brutus and Cassius. In fact, since all the main characters are so well developed, it is possible to compare and contrast between any of the major characters in this play ...

Gwino 20.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar - A Shakespeare masterpeice

Advantages: Beautiful Story, characters etc.
Disadvantages: Old English is a little difficult to understand

Julius Caesar is a book written by Shakespeare. This book deals with the main character of the story Julius Caesar who was now going to be crowned as the King of Rome. But all is not well with him. While he tries to achieve his goal, a pair of conspirators who feel that Julius Caesar is an ambitious fellow with a bad consequence and that they need to kill him eventually. The story revolves around Burtus and Casiisu who are the leaders of the conspiracy. Julius Caesar is constantly warned about the bad omens that were going to occur, but dues to his proudish and selfish self, he didnt care about them. He felt that danger, if it sees his face will run away. Julius Caesar is eventually killed by the conspirators, if he had listened or believed the omens maybe he could have lived. Aftert his incident Marc Anthony a loyal friend of Caesar ...

thecoolbro 08.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

Not so mighty Caesar

Advantages: Some good performances and scenes
Disadvantages: Overall sketchy, both in production and history

Recently I saw Jeremy Sisto in a film in the cinema, and as my movie-going friend and I were dissecting the film afterward, we both were impressed with Sisto?s performance, and tried to recall what we?d seen him in before. I remembered this production of Julius Caesar, but only after a while ? Sisto?s role in the other film (a light drama with a comedic edge) is very different from the epic, super-serious Julius Caesar. This production is a good one for a straight-to-television production. It is a four-hour miniseries (the television nomenclature equivalent for ?epic?). It plays a bit loose with the historic progression, but keeps many of the broad strokes intact ? Rome?s trouble under Sulla, Caesar?s early difficulties becoming established, his military alliance and familial partnership with Pompey, destined to falter ...

frkurt 11.06.2007 · Read full review
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