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“The Dead Caesar“ (c.1859)

Jean-Léon Gérôme

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a friend and I are undertaking our
umpteenth reading of a Shakespeare
play, “Julius Caesar” this time, which
I hadn’t read in an age

in this version, still unparalleled,
Brutus, James Mason, presents his
argument for the assassination of
Caesar, “Hear me for my cause, and
be silent that you may hear…not that
I loved Caesar less but that I loved
Rome more”, he proclaims

Mark Antony, in the incarnation of
Marlon Brando, responds, for the
ages

and therein lies the glory, incidentally,
of Shakespeare

just saying

Richard