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Transcript: Robert Siegel Reads From Shakespeare's `Julius Caesar'
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- March 15, 1996
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Today is the Ides of March. To mark it, Robert Siegel reads from Shakespeare'
s tragedy "Julius Caesar," in which Brutus eulogizes the man he helped
murder.
NOAH ADAMS, Host: `Beware the Ides of March,' Shakespeare's soothsayer
tells Caesar. He is dismissed as a dreamer, but his seeing is later
proved clear - Caesar falls at the hand of a friend, of a countryman,
of a Roman. The assassin speaks at the funeral of his victim.
ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: [reading part of Brutus from "Julius Caesar"
] If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to
him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then
that ...