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A review by simplestyle
Julius Caesar by SparkNotes, William Shakespeare
4.0
Julius Caesar was brought to life for me at the Stratford Festival.
Reading the text on my own was a fairly dull experience. The plot is straightforward. The first half slowly builds up to the assassination; the second half devolves into a series of suicides.
But the performance gave the whole thing life. The actors made the characters and their motivations matter. The set, the costumes, the sounds and music created an experience.
Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, and Marc Antony teach lessons I could digest quickly after reading the text. But seeing their story performed will make me remember them.
Reading the text on my own was a fairly dull experience. The plot is straightforward. The first half slowly builds up to the assassination; the second half devolves into a series of suicides.
But the performance gave the whole thing life. The actors made the characters and their motivations matter. The set, the costumes, the sounds and music created an experience.
Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, and Marc Antony teach lessons I could digest quickly after reading the text. But seeing their story performed will make me remember them.