It is believed that Julius Caesar’s success and ambition alienated republican senators who called themselves, Liberators, a faction which plotted to assassinate him. It was led by his friend, Brutus and carried out successfully on 15 March 44 BC.
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The “eye” of March.
My parents bantered a lot about Shakespeare most especially their favourite excerpts from “Julius Caesar”. 🙄😊
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There so many wonderful Shakespearean quotes. “this above all to thine own self be true” “To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer” “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” to mention a few. I once had all of his plays. I seemed to like the tragedies more than the comedies. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Timon of Athens, Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure are among the ones I liked. That’s funny about your parents 🙂
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Yeah, kinda cute now that I think about my parents’ animated Shakespeare dialogue.
The Merchant of Venice was the Shakespeare read for Literature in English my School Cert set.
Portia probably had a ball acting in the capacity of a lawyer. 😊
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I’m sure she did. And I guess Shakespeare believed in gender equality.
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The most famous political plot of them all!
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Yes, it was and I liked reading about it in Shakespeare’s play. How haunting and heartbreaking the words, “Even you, Brutus?”
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Nice and educational use of the word, Adele.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle. I tried to figure out what to write about and then, I thought of Julius Caesar and what led to his assassination.
Shalom,
Adele
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Et tu? I wonder if they would have done it knowing they would get rid of a dictator only to replace him with an Emperor! And, of course, the death of the Republic..
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They probably wouldn’t have done it. There were unforeseen consequences to their conspiracy.
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