Julius Caesar (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare)

Julius Caesar (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare

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Book Summary Information

Author: William Shakespeare
Contributor: Various
Edition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Audiobook
Published: 1999-01-01
ISBN: 014086783X
Publisher: Arkangel
Accessories:

Sony WMFX479 Walkman

Book Reviews of Julius Caesar (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare)

Book Review: A Great Recording of a Great Play
Summary: 5 Stars

_Julius Caesar_ is one of those Shakespeare plays that you read in high school, forget about, and then have the joy of rediscovering years later. The Archangel recording will (re)introduce you to one of Shakespeare's great plays.

As others have commented, this play is primarily about Brutus, Shakespeare's dearest friend, who must decide how to lead a noble life. Is it right to kill his friend to preserve Rome as a republic? With the deed done, how can he remain true to his ideals, even as Rome itself threatens to shatter?

Other characters also come to life, largely in comparision or contrast to Brutus's: the scheming Cassius; Caesar, trapped between his own ego and his sense of justice; Marc Antony, driven by passion to smash Rome itself to revenge himself on the conspirators; and Brutus's and Caesar's wives, each of whom can see what is happening but is helpless to prevent the tragedy.

At one level, this is a play about politic and ethics. At another, it's a play about words and the power of stagecraft. In one of the play's finest moments, Brutus and Marc Antony use their best rhetoric to try to sway the Roman people for and against the conspirators. Hearing each speech performed, I can't help but think that we are being given a view into Shakespeare's own understanding of how to fill a crowd with passion or horror.

The Archangel recording of this play is excellent. It's very much a radio-style production instead of a simple reading, and the sound effects and interscene music are excellent, as are the performances. In particular, Adrian Lester steals the show as Antony, and the actor playing Cassius also does a remarkable job.
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Summary of Julius Caesar (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare)

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.

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