Reviews for Julius Caesar
Review - Julius Caesar
Act 3, Scene 2 "Antony’s Oration over Caesar’s Body" is on the Treasury of the Familiar list.
I have a theory. Shakespeare, to his contemporaries, was not high brow entertainment. The common, illiterate working man went to see his plays to laugh at the dolt who couldn’t recognize his wife because she was dressed as a man. Somewhere along the way, probably about the time people stopped saying “thee” and “thou,” he became accessible only to the well-educated. But in his day, his plays filled the niche that movies fill in our world. And while his vocabulary was genius, some of his plots are every bit as ridiculous as the average romantic comedy.
So, two, three, four hundred years from now, the person who can quote Caddyshack or Monty Python and the Holy Grail will be every bit as impressive as the person who quotes Shakespeare today. That’s my theory, anyway.
I have a theory. Shakespeare, to his contemporaries, was not high brow entertainment. The common, illiterate working man went to see his plays to laugh at the dolt who couldn’t recognize his wife because she was dressed as a man. Somewhere along the way, probably about the time people stopped saying “thee” and “thou,” he became accessible only to the well-educated. But in his day, his plays filled the niche that movies fill in our world. And while his vocabulary was genius, some of his plots are every bit as ridiculous as the average romantic comedy.
So, two, three, four hundred years from now, the person who can quote Caddyshack or Monty Python and the Holy Grail will be every bit as impressive as the person who quotes Shakespeare today. That’s my theory, anyway.
Reviewed by Roger on 2014-06-21 18:53:02