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These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling
By Peter BradshawEdinburgh film festivalA taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance film
#Film #Edinburghfilmfestival #Ballet #RomeoandJuliet #WilliamShakespeare #ScottishBallet #Culture #Dance #Festivals #Stage #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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These Violent Delights review – Scottish Ballet’s feverish Romeo and Juliet is bold and unsettling
By Peter BradshawEdinburgh film festivalA taut, dreamlike reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy strips away romance in favour of dread, creating an engrossing and fiercely physical dance film
#Film #Edinburghfilmfestival #Ballet #RomeoandJuliet #WilliamShakespeare #ScottishBallet #Culture #Dance #Festivals #Stage #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw
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Movie Review: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1953)
Title: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Release Date: June 4, 1953
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Main Cast:- Marlon Brando as Mark Antony
- James Mason as Brutus
- John Gielgud as Cassius
- Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar
- Edmond O’Brien as Casca
- Greer Garson as Calpurnia
- Deborah Kerr as Portia
- George Macready as Marullus
- Michael Pate as Flavius
- Richard Hale as a Soothsayer
- Alan Napier as Cicero
- John Hoyt as Decius Brutus
- Tom Powers as Metellus Cimber
- William Cottrell as Cinna
- Jack Raine as Trebonius
- Ian Wolfe as Ligarius
- Morgan Farley as Artemidorus
- Bill Phipps as Servant to Antony
- Douglas Watson as Octavius Caesar
- Douglass Dumbrille as Lepidus
- Rhys Williams as Lucilius
- Michael Ansara as Pindarus
- Dayton Lummis as Messala
- Edmund Purdom as Strato
- Paul Guilfoyle as First Citizen
- John Doucette as Second Citizen
- Lawrence Dobkin as Third Citizen
- Jo Gilbert as Fourth Citizen
Synopsis (via Letterboxd):
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
My Thoughts:
Julius Caesar receives the full MGM classic era treatment: big sets, big crowds, and big stars! And it’s mostly effective. For it’s cast of thousands, the success of this movie is down to the talents of its three lead actors. Marlo Brando breaks from the mumbler typecast he had at the time to be an inspirational Mark Antony while John Gielgud is imperious as the conspiracy leader Cassius. I have to admit that I usually find James Mason to be very creepy, but his creepiness is toned down here allowing him to play a sympathetic antihero in Brutus. Producer John Houseman decided to break the tradition of an all-British cast in Shakespeare productions and it pays off in performances such as Edmond O’Brien’s very Brooklyn approach to Casca. Joseph L. Mankiewicz is known for being a dialogue director which feels like it should be right for a Shakespeare, but his approach is too faithful in presenting it as a historical drama. For a movie released just after the end of World War II, I had hoped that the crisis of dictators with ambitions would feel more present. While the monologues are strong, the movie lacks an overall sense of urgency and intrigue.
Rating: ***1/2
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Movie Review: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1953)
Title: William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Release Date: June 4, 1953
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Main Cast:- Marlon Brando as Mark Antony
- James Mason as Brutus
- John Gielgud as Cassius
- Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar
- Edmond O’Brien as Casca
- Greer Garson as Calpurnia
- Deborah Kerr as Portia
- George Macready as Marullus
- Michael Pate as Flavius
- Richard Hale as a Soothsayer
- Alan Napier as Cicero
- John Hoyt as Decius Brutus
- Tom Powers as Metellus Cimber
- William Cottrell as Cinna
- Jack Raine as Trebonius
- Ian Wolfe as Ligarius
- Morgan Farley as Artemidorus
- Bill Phipps as Servant to Antony
- Douglas Watson as Octavius Caesar
- Douglass Dumbrille as Lepidus
- Rhys Williams as Lucilius
- Michael Ansara as Pindarus
- Dayton Lummis as Messala
- Edmund Purdom as Strato
- Paul Guilfoyle as First Citizen
- John Doucette as Second Citizen
- Lawrence Dobkin as Third Citizen
- Jo Gilbert as Fourth Citizen
Synopsis (via Letterboxd):
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
My Thoughts:
Julius Caesar receives the full MGM classic era treatment: big sets, big crowds, and big stars! And it’s mostly effective. For it’s cast of thousands, the success of this movie is down to the talents of its three lead actors. Marlo Brando breaks from the mumbler typecast he had at the time to be an inspirational Mark Antony while John Gielgud is imperious as the conspiracy leader Cassius. I have to admit that I usually find James Mason to be very creepy, but his creepiness is toned down here allowing him to play a sympathetic antihero in Brutus. Producer John Houseman decided to break the tradition of an all-British cast in Shakespeare productions and it pays off in performances such as Edmond O’Brien’s very Brooklyn approach to Casca. Joseph L. Mankiewicz is known for being a dialogue director which feels like it should be right for a Shakespeare, but his approach is too faithful in presenting it as a historical drama. For a movie released just after the end of World War II, I had hoped that the crisis of dictators with ambitions would feel more present. While the monologues are strong, the movie lacks an overall sense of urgency and intrigue.
Rating: ***1/2
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Book Review: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Julius Caesar
Publication Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011 [first performed circa 1599]
Summary/Review:Despite the title, this play is not about Julius Caesar. In fact [SPOILERS], Caesar dies at the beginning of Act III. Instead it’s the story of Marcus Junius Brutus, depicted by Shakespeare as a friend of Caesar’s concerned that Caesar’s ambition and appointment as dictator for life threatens the Roman Republic. And it’s the story of Cassius, the zealot who organizes a conspiracy against Caesar and convinces Brutus to join. And it’s the story of Mark Antony, ally of Caesar, who craftily sways the Roman public against the conspirators but maintains a respect toward Brutus. The brilliance of Shakespeare is that while all of these characters are flawed, rash, and entangled in political intrigue, there is no real villain in the piece.
Favorite Passages:
It’s a truism that Shakespeare originated – or at least popularized – numerous words and phrases. But it’s still a surprise to me just how many familiar phrases are in this play. There are some sayings that are obviously from Julius Caesar even if you haven’t read the play, such as:
- Beware the Ides of March (Soothsayer, Act 1, scene 2)
- Et tu, Brutè? (Caesar, Act 3, scene 1)
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears (Antony, Act 3, scene 2)
But I was surprised to read these notable phrases in the dialogue as well:
- The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars (Cassius, Act 1, scene 2) – “Brutus” is typically left out when this is quoted in popular culture
- Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. (Caesar, Act 1, scene 2) – Again, I often hear this without “Cassius”
- But for mine own part, it was Greek to me (Casca, Act 1, scene 2)
- Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war (Antony, Act 3, scene 1)
- This was the most unkindest cut of all (Antony, Act 3, scene 2)
Rating: ****1/2
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Titus Andronicus
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love’s Labours’ Lost
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
- The History of Henry IV, Part 1
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The History of Henry IV, Part 2
- Much Ado About Nothing
- King Henry V
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Book Review: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Julius Caesar
Publication Info: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011 [first performed circa 1599]
Summary/Review:Despite the title, this play is not about Julius Caesar. In fact [SPOILERS], Caesar dies at the beginning of Act III. Instead it’s the story of Marcus Junius Brutus, depicted by Shakespeare as a friend of Caesar’s concerned that Caesar’s ambition and appointment as dictator for life threatens the Roman Republic. And it’s the story of Cassius, the zealot who organizes a conspiracy against Caesar and convinces Brutus to join. And it’s the story of Mark Antony, ally of Caesar, who craftily sways the Roman public against the conspirators but maintains a respect toward Brutus. The brilliance of Shakespeare is that while all of these characters are flawed, rash, and entangled in political intrigue, there is no real villain in the piece.
Favorite Passages:
It’s a truism that Shakespeare originated – or at least popularized – numerous words and phrases. But it’s still a surprise to me just how many familiar phrases are in this play. There are some sayings that are obviously from Julius Caesar even if you haven’t read the play, such as:
- Beware the Ides of March (Soothsayer, Act 1, scene 2)
- Et tu, Brutè? (Caesar, Act 3, scene 1)
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears (Antony, Act 3, scene 2)
But I was surprised to read these notable phrases in the dialogue as well:
- The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars (Cassius, Act 1, scene 2) – “Brutus” is typically left out when this is quoted in popular culture
- Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. (Caesar, Act 1, scene 2) – Again, I often hear this without “Cassius”
- But for mine own part, it was Greek to me (Casca, Act 1, scene 2)
- Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war (Antony, Act 3, scene 1)
- This was the most unkindest cut of all (Antony, Act 3, scene 2)
Rating: ****1/2
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Titus Andronicus
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love’s Labours’ Lost
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
- The History of Henry IV, Part 1
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The History of Henry IV, Part 2
- Much Ado About Nothing
- King Henry V
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Game of Thrones, Shakespearean? What fools these mortals be!
By Michael BillingtonThe Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play make
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/11/game-of-thrones-the-mad-king-royal-shakespeare-company
#Theatre #RoyalShakespeareCompany #GameofThrones #GeorgeRRMartin #Books #Culture #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #DuncanMacmillan #DominicCooke #TheGuardian #MichaelBillington
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Game of Thrones, Shakespearean? What fools these mortals be!
By Michael BillingtonThe Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play make
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/11/game-of-thrones-the-mad-king-royal-shakespeare-company
#Theatre #RoyalShakespeareCompany #GameofThrones #GeorgeRRMartin #Books #Culture #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #DuncanMacmillan #DominicCooke #TheGuardian #MichaelBillington
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FOOL: Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath,
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 58ff (2.4.58-61) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #feste #burial #death #dying #heartbreak #passion #pining #rejection
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Death #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Death #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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ORSINO: If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 1ff (1.1.1-3) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #orsino #appetite #excess #gorging #love #music #passion
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ORSINO: If music be the food of love, play on.
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 1, l. 1ff (1.1.1-3) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #orsino #appetite #excess #gorging #love #music #passion
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ORSINO: These most brisk and giddy-pacèd times.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 7 (2.4.7) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twelfthnight #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #busyness #change #instability #moderntimes #pace #present #speed #times
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Improvement
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah
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Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WilliamShakespeare #Improvement
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #CoyoteButtesNorth #TheWave #VermilionCliffs #Utah
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Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta
By Mark LawsonShakespeare’s Globe, LondonChoreographers Carmen Igarza and Vanessa Guevara deserve to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished play
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/30/loves-labours-lost-review-shakespeares-globe-london
#Stage #ShakespearesGlobe #Culture #WilliamShakespeare #TheGuardian #MarkLawson
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Book Review: King Henry V by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: King Henry V
Publication Info: London : Arden Shakespeare, 1995, 2002 [written circa 1599]
Summary/Review:I may be wrong, but I think Henry V is the most famous and highly-regarded of all of Shakespeare’s English history plays. In the chronology of when they plays were written, it is the last of eight plays in a continuous sequence from the 1390s to the 1480s, albeit in the middle of that historical chronology. Shakespeare saved the best for last.
The drama of the play is conveyed by a Chorus who introduces each act. The structure of the play is fairly simple. In the first act we see that the King has matured since the days of Prince Hal, and is determined to secure his birthright in France. In the next act, he uncovers a plot by members of his court to assassinate him. Act III depicts the English in their successful siege of Harfleur. Now surrounded by the French army, Act IV depicts Henry visiting his soldiers in disguise and then rallies the troops with his St. Crispin’s Day speech. In the final act, having achieved a tremendous victory at Agincourt, Henry charmingly woos the French princess Katharine in a marriage that will seal the peace.
This play is an example of English patriotism and nationalism but it’s complex in a way that goes beyond jingoism. Henry is depicted as a scheming and sometimes flawed leader, and in his speech at Harfleur he threatens war crimes. Shakespeare was writing during the reign of Elizabeth I and the last of the 8 plays ends with her grandfather Henry VII “rightfully” gaining the throne. In this context, it makes sense that Shakespeare is willing to depict previous monarchs as less than great. This is also a war play that doesn’t shy away from the horrors of war. While some adaptations make it an anti-war play, I think it’s most likely that Shakespeare is recognizing that the great achievements of war can come at great moral and mental costs.
Rating: *****
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Titus Andronicus
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love’s Labours’ Lost
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
- The History of Henry IV, Part 1
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The History of Henry IV, Part 2
- Much Ado About Nothing
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VIOLA: O Time, thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me t’ untie.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 40ff (2.2.40-41) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #complexity #conundrum #passageoftime #problem #puzzle #tangle #time #untangle
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VIOLA: O Time, thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me t’ untie.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 40ff (2.2.40-41) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #complexity #conundrum #passageoftime #problem #puzzle #tangle #time #untangle
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Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – breezy double bill brings out the best in both
By Mark LawsonBraboeuf Manor, GuildfordElegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic note
#Theatre #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #Culture #TheGuardian #MarkLawson
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‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire
By Lyndsey WinshipLove’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Indiana Lown-Collins. Our writer joins the theatre’s flamenco bootcamp
#Stage #Flamenco #ShakespearesGlobe #Culture #Dance #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare #Comedy #Comedy #TheGuardian #LyndseyWinship
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OLIVIA: What’s a drunken man like, Fool?
FOOL: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman. One
draught above heat makes him a fool, the second
mads him, and a third drowns him.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 128ff (1.5.128-131) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #shakespeare #twelfthnight #alcohol #drinking #drunkenness #intoxication
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Book Review: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Publication Info: New York : Washington Square Press, 2005 [written circa 1598-1599]
Summary/Review:Leonato, the governor of Messina, hosts Don Pedro and his troops on his estate after a successful battle. One of his men, Claudio and Leonato’s daughter Hero immediately fall in love and plan to marry. But Don Pedro’s jealous brother Don John plots to upset the happy scenario by framing Hero as an unfaithful woman. The plan to exonerate Hero involves cribbing from Romeo & Juliet with a fake death, but a happier outcome.
Much of this is overshadowed by the B-plot involving Leonato’s niece Beatrice and Claudio’s friend and fellow soldier Benedick. As the play begins, they display a deep loathing for one another exchanging barbed quips I can only imagine in the style of a 1940s screwball comedy. Don Pedro’s men along with Hero and her attendant Ursual plot to convince Beatrice and Benedick that the other suffers from unrequited love for them. The ploy works hilariously to create the ur-text of enemies-to-lovers romance plots.
I think this may be to most laugh out loud funniest of Shakespeare’s comedies in the chronology thus far (although The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream all have their moments) while also tying together two complementary plots in a successful whole.
Rating: ****
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Titus Andronicus
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love’s Labours’ Lost
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
- The History of Henry IV, Part 1
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The History of Henry IV, Part 2
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Book Review: Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Publication Info: New York : Washington Square Press, 2005 [written circa 1598-1599]
Summary/Review:Leonato, the governor of Messina, hosts Don Pedro and his troops on his estate after a successful battle. One of his men, Claudio and Leonato’s daughter Hero immediately fall in love and plan to marry. But Don Pedro’s jealous brother Don John plots to upset the happy scenario by framing Hero as an unfaithful woman. The plan to exonerate Hero involves cribbing from Romeo & Juliet with a fake death, but a happier outcome.
Much of this is overshadowed by the B-plot involving Leonato’s niece Beatrice and Claudio’s friend and fellow soldier Benedick. As the play begins, they display a deep loathing for one another exchanging barbed quips I can only imagine in the style of a 1940s screwball comedy. Don Pedro’s men along with Hero and her attendant Ursual plot to convince Beatrice and Benedick that the other suffers from unrequited love for them. The ploy works hilariously to create the ur-text of enemies-to-lovers romance plots.
I think this may be to most laugh out loud funniest of Shakespeare’s comedies in the chronology thus far (although The Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream all have their moments) while also tying together two complementary plots in a successful whole.
Rating: ****
I’m reading every Shakespeare play, one per month, in chronological order. Here’s my progress thus far:
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Titus Andronicus
- Richard III
- The Comedy of Errors
- Love’s Labours’ Lost
- Richard II
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- The Life and Death of King John
- The Merchant of Venice
- The History of Henry IV, Part 1
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- The History of Henry IV, Part 2
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Theater Review: Julius Caesar by Dream Role Players
Julius Caesar
Hannah Baker – Director
Aza Pietropaolo – Assistant DirectorJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
July 10, 2026: Longfellow Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cast
Julius Caesar – Robin Abrahams
Brutus – Jaryn Wilcox
Cassius – Elizabeth Ross
Marc Antony – Angelo Alexander
Casca – Mary Parker
Metellus – Lisa Burdick
Cinna – Lucia A. Grunko
Decius – Crow J. Traphagen (u/s Brutus, Caesar)
Octavius/Funeral Citizen 1 – Delaney Walkes
Lucius/Artemidorus/Funeral Citizen 2 – Hayley Haggerty
Calpurnia/Lepidus/Popilius/Funeral Citizen 3 – Paula Hawthorne (u/s Cassius, Antony)
Soothsayer/Cobbler/Servant/Funeral Citizen 4 – Kris Kim (u/s Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus)Last night I enjoyed free Shakespeare in the park, courtesy of the Dream Role Players and an almost all-woman and nonbinary cast. The park in question is Longfellow Park, overlooked by the house of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who I would expect would love seeing Shakespeare performed in his front yard. Hannah Baker’s direction of the play takes a dark political humor approach. Shakespeare’s words are not changed but they are delivered in a humorous manner emphasizing the pettiness of political infighting and misguided notions of honor. Also, for some reason Cassius rides a Segway scooter for the entire play. I don’t know if it’s supposed to represent a chariot or just a bit of absurdism. Like many Shakespeare works, I had several moments of “oh, that’s where that phrase comes from,” perhaps more often than typical. Previously, I was only familiar with the scenes from Julius Caesar that my high school Latin teacher had us act out every year on the Ides of March.
Familiar faces in the cast include Robin Abrahams (A King and No King), Jaryn Wilcox (Mariette in Ecstasy), and Mary Parker (director of A King and No King).
Julius Caesar continues at Longfellow Park tonight and tomorrow and then July 17-19, before moving to Herter Park in Allston for two shows on July 24-25. All performances begin at 7pm.
#Drama #DreamRolePlayers #PerformingArtsReviews #Theater #TheaterReviews #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare -
Theater Review: Julius Caesar by Dream Role Players
Julius Caesar
Hannah Baker – Director
Aza Pietropaolo – Assistant DirectorJulius Caesar by William Shakespeare
July 10, 2026: Longfellow Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cast
Julius Caesar – Robin Abrahams
Brutus – Jaryn Wilcox
Cassius – Elizabeth Ross
Marc Antony – Angelo Alexander
Casca – Mary Parker
Metellus – Lisa Burdick
Cinna – Lucia A. Grunko
Decius – Crow J. Traphagen (u/s Brutus, Caesar)
Octavius/Funeral Citizen 1 – Delaney Walkes
Lucius/Artemidorus/Funeral Citizen 2 – Hayley Haggerty
Calpurnia/Lepidus/Popilius/Funeral Citizen 3 – Paula Hawthorne (u/s Cassius, Antony)
Soothsayer/Cobbler/Servant/Funeral Citizen 4 – Kris Kim (u/s Casca, Decius, Cinna, Metellus)Last night I enjoyed free Shakespeare in the park, courtesy of the Dream Role Players and an almost all-woman and nonbinary cast. The park in question is Longfellow Park, overlooked by the house of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who I would expect would love seeing Shakespeare performed in his front yard. Hannah Baker’s direction of the play takes a dark political humor approach. Shakespeare’s words are not changed but they are delivered in a humorous manner emphasizing the pettiness of political infighting and misguided notions of honor. Also, for some reason Cassius rides a Segway scooter for the entire play. I don’t know if it’s supposed to represent a chariot or just a bit of absurdism. Like many Shakespeare works, I had several moments of “oh, that’s where that phrase comes from,” perhaps more often than typical. Previously, I was only familiar with the scenes from Julius Caesar that my high school Latin teacher had us act out every year on the Ides of March.
Familiar faces in the cast include Robin Abrahams (A King and No King), Jaryn Wilcox (Mariette in Ecstasy), and Mary Parker (director of A King and No King).
Julius Caesar continues at Longfellow Park tonight and tomorrow and then July 17-19, before moving to Herter Park in Allston for two shows on July 24-25. All performances begin at 7pm.
#Drama #DreamRolePlayers #PerformingArtsReviews #Theater #TheaterReviews #Theatre #WilliamShakespeare -
FOOL: Good madonna, why mourn’st thou?
OLIVIA: Good Fool, for my brother’s death.
FOOL: I think his soul is in hell, madonna.
OLIVIA: I know his soul is in heaven, Fool.
FOOL: The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul, being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 5, l. 64ff (1.5 64-70) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #afterlife #death #grief #heaven #hell #mourning #paradise #fool #folly
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth) -
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth) -
RSC casts Sharon D Clarke as black lesbian Othello in reimagining of play https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/01/royal-shakespeare-company-casts-sharon-d-clarke-as-black-lesbian-othello #RoyalShakespeareCompany #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #Culture #Theatre #SharonDClarke #UkNews #Othello
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RSC casts Sharon D Clarke as black lesbian Othello in reimagining of play https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/01/royal-shakespeare-company-casts-sharon-d-clarke-as-black-lesbian-othello #RoyalShakespeareCompany #Stage #WilliamShakespeare #Culture #Theatre #SharonDClarke #UkNews #Othello
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TOBY: I am sure care’s an enemy to life.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 2ff (1.3.2-3) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #anxiety #care #grief #living #mourning #sadness #worry
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TOBY: I am sure care’s an enemy to life.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 1, sc. 3, l. 2ff (1.3.2-3) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #anxiety #care #grief #living #mourning #sadness #worry
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Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear) -
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
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Trupe de Luneiros faz adaptação “junina” de peça de Shakespeare
- cijnusp
https://jornal.usp.br/cultura/trupe-de-luzeiros-faz-adaptacao-junina-de-peca-de-shakespeare/
#Cultura #ArtesCnicas #SonhodeUmaNoitedeSoJoo #Sonhodeumanoitedevero #Teatro #TrupedeLuneiros #WilliamShakespeare -
Shakespearean Gardens celebrates 90 years | Spare News https://www.allforgardening.com/1817286/shakespearean-gardens-celebrates-90-years-spare-news/ #garden #gardening #horticulture #LandscapeArchitecture #parks #PlantAgriculture #ShakespeareGarden #SpareNews #StratfordUponAvon #WilliamShakespeare
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#IanMcKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by #WilliamShakespeare, Written in Defense of #Immigrants
"Say now the king
Should so much come too short of your great trespass
As but to banish you, whither would you go?
What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbour? go you to France or Flanders,
To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,
Nay, any where that not adheres to England,
Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth,
Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity." -
William & Hamnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqs-ueGZ9QI
#thedarkknaik #hamnet #jessiebuckley #williamshakespeare #hamlet
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A quotation (not) from Shakespeare
What a terrible era in which the idiots govern the blind.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespare #williamshakespeare #badgovernment #blindness #dolts #era #government #idiots #misgovernment #period #regime #rulership
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#Zweifel sind #Verräter. Sie rauben uns, was wir #gewinnen können, wenn wir nur einen #Versuch wagen.
(William #Shakespeare)
#psychotHHerapie #Zitat #Zitate #WilliamShakespeare -
‘I want to hit 100’: Derek Jacobi on Aids, ageing and failing to boil an egg https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/22/derek-jacobi-aids-ageing-interview #Film #DerekJacobi #Culture #Stage #Television #FrancisBacon #LucianFreud #WilliamShakespeare #TelevisionRadio
