The Ides of March
GHAKESPEARE’S Julius Caesar begins magnificently: what more arresting than the irritable Flavius and Marcellus upbraiding the citizenry for their holiday guise, how better underline the discontent of little men with Ceesar’s growing pomp? The play mcunts in excitement: will Caesar go, will he not; he goes, is stabbed, and then we have one of the greatest scenes in dramatic literature, the orations over the body, and the most subtle and penetrating account of mob psychology ever written. This is the peak of the play, and the last two acts cannot sustain
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 916, 1 March 1957, Page 20
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95The Ides of March New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 916, 1 March 1957, Page 20
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