Ep. 115: To Bury Caesar
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Shakespeare's great tragedy, Julius Caesar, carries the story of Caesar forward beyond the Rubicon and beautifully dramatizes the tragic machinery of history that led Rome's republic to its downfall. Did Caesar have a choice? Do we? In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan discusses all this and more in the latest installment of the Shakespeare series.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, Romans, Heretics, Len Mirriers. |
| 0:09.0 | Ah, right, you probably know that speech. |
| 0:10.8 | It's from Shakespeare's Julia Caesar, |
| 0:13.0 | which I said we were gonna get to, |
| 0:14.1 | and here we are, the prophecy has been fulfilled. |
| 0:18.0 | This is America Month, and it's probably gonna go past |
| 0:20.6 | the month of July because America is worth it. |
| 0:22.8 | And we're actually, because the term Heretics, |
| 0:24.9 | we're not just talking about America, |
| 0:26.0 | we're talking about the grand narrative sweep of history, |
| 0:29.4 | and we've been spending some time with our friend, |
| 0:31.8 | Julia Caesar, in part because we have reached the point |
| 0:34.8 | where it's time to do another Shakespeare tragedy, |
| 0:38.6 | and we've decided that the next one is going to be |
| 0:42.2 | Julius Caesar. |
| 0:43.6 | Now, even making that decision, |
| 0:45.6 | I'm going to offend some of my dear friend, |
| 0:47.8 | Shakespeare nerds, who want this to be a history, right? |
| 0:50.6 | And of course, the categorization of Shakespeare plays |
| 0:54.8 | is always fraught, but this one in particular, |
| 0:56.8 | because it's built as the tragedy of Julia Caesar. |
| 1:01.2 | And yet, it's influenced in large part by Plutarch's life |
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