Julius Caesar is one of my favorite Shakespeare plays as well as one of my favorite historical figure. Because I am awesome like that. I guess in a historical context, I love the era more than I love Julius Caesar himself.
One of my favorite speeches is when Portia begs Brutus to not go kill Caesar (even though she doesn't know that is what he is gonna do. She just knows he is being a lying weirdo). I have done that speech a bunch of times for auditions.
I love that Shakespeare humanizes pretty much everyone in his plays, no matter how evil or twisted they are. Even with Richard III the audience can see that despite his innate evilness, he clearly has overcompensation issues because of his deformity. I kinda get why Brutus and Cassius did what they did. And I mean, they obviously regretted it after.
Poor little Caesar.
Happy Ides.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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