I wonder what it is that makes that the Caesar quote.
I don't know, "Et tu, Brute?" could give it a run for its money.
Is it the climax of the play?
No, it's the denouement. It's after Caesar's dead.
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I wonder what it is that makes that the Caesar quote.
I don't know, "Et tu, Brute?" could give it a run for its money.
Is it the climax of the play?
No, it's the denouement. It's after Caesar's dead.
I think "Cry Havoc!" is also up there.
"he's got a lean and hungry look" and "beware the ides of march" are pretty big.
"he's got a lean and hungry look"
I've never heard this quoted before. Huh.
"beware the ides of march"
Oh, of course. Yeah, there are a lot of quotable lines. It's Shakespeare!
I've never heard this quoted before.
"Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous."
I think my favorite Julius Caesar quote is "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves."
That is a good one.
...The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.
...that we are underlings.
There's a local troupe called "The Lean and Hungry Theater Company."
Back when I taught Shakespeare, the other teacher maintained that JC was the most-quoted Shakespeare. I argued, and still think, that Hamlet is.
I mean, look at all the politicians who use Polonius' advice as sincere quotage.
One of my worst Shakespeare-in-the-theatre experiences was seeing Hamlet and having the couple behind me exclaim at every fucking famous line in the play which is almost all of them, "OH! This is where that's from?"