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Article: Julius Caesar. (Public Theater, New York)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- April 23, 1988
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Julius Caesar is at once the dullest and the most familiar of Shakespeare's tragedies. It has become the most familiar precisely because it is the dullest, a tale so tensed of dramatic meat that it can be presented to any group of teenagers, however rowdy, without danger of awakening their interest. The two women in the play have but a scene each, in which they nag and are ignored. The grounds for Caesar's assassination are never debated, nor even discussed with any political acumen. The great man himself comes across more as a fatuously complacent office-holder than a world conqueror, a judgment Shakespeare himself seems to share when in Hamlet he shuffles the role ...
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