Julius Caesar – FckShakespeare

Season 2: Ep 12 The Noblest Roman, Julius Caesar ending

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WARNING: This episode contains mention of suicide.

After Cassius is gone, Brutus has little to live for. So perhaps Rome was not so important after all? — Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fckshakespeare/support

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• young Cato – dies. Similar to Young Siward scene. Reminds us that the wars take fathers and sons and often prove the end of the line for a particular bloodline.

• Brutus tries each of his soldiers in turn to ask them to kill him – whispered requests – again, words we cannot hear

• the word Brutus said 21 times in these 2 scenes – the ending is not about the victors – Octavius and Antony get very little of a wrap up, and even then only a eulogy for Brutus.

• the play ends with the words “happy day” – bullshit. Devastating.

• on to King Lear!

Season 2, Ep 11 A Roman’s Part? Julius Caesar Act 5

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WARNING: This scene contains discussion of suicide.

Men love each other then part then fight then die. That’s how the world turns, but battles certainly bring on some of these things too quickly. As the play is winding up we know there won’t be happy endings. Cassius’ comes first. He warned Brutus not to go rushing into things, but Brutus doesn’t listen… So Cassius does what he’s been threatening to do all along – take himself out of the game.

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• the 2 battles at Phillipi were actually 20 days apart, but S conflates them. 24,000 Romans died in the combined battles – devastating civil war. Many were heads of noble families. The wars had disastrous effects for the long run.

• death of Cassius – on his birthday! Sad. Because of misinterpreted sights – theme – not seeing properly. He even says that he is nearsighted.

• Brutus’ forces beat Octavius but Cassius’ lost to Antony.

• heads up to King Lear next!

Season 2, Ep 10: Great Caesar’s Ghost!, Julius Caesar Act 4

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The tent scene is a love scene. Period. Tent? It’s more like a sauna, cuz it gets pretty steamy in there! Yeah, we said there was no sex in JC, but we were wrong. Here it is, juicy and explicit, and it’s about frickin’ time!

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Season 2 Episode 8: Flying Body Parts, Julius Caesar Act 4

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The Mob rules! And it gets nasty. Especially for poor Cinna the Poet. After all, when chaos reigns, art is the first thing to go. Once Caesar is killed all of Rome has to deal with the aftermath, and with power up for grabs there are seismic shifts in personalities. Antony, for one, shows himself to be quite the douche. Such a shame. He had such promise with that pretty speech from the last scene…

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Season 2, Episode 7: Lend Me Your Rears! Julius Caesar Act 3

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Big mistakes are made! Brutus says “Yes, sure, Antony, come and eulogize Caesar. You won’t say anything mean about us murderers, right?” HA! Never has the word “honorable” sounded soooo nasty. — Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fckshakespeare/support

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men–
Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Stabby stab stab stab, with some backstabbing and ball stabbing

Summary

In which the deed is done, Brutus et al are delusional about Rome’s reaction, the quiet guy in the corner is told to go tell the public about the conspirators fine actions, A servant is worried about shooting the messenger, Antony sets up THE SCENE, and then BAM! — This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fckshakespeare/support

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Season 2 Ep 3: Thunder and Lightning! Very Very Frightening! Julius Caesar Act 1

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Weather is a character in Act 1 of JC. Between the lightening and people catching on fire and lions roaming the streets, it’s terrifying!! Plus fun ties between Hamlet and Caesar and big plans for Pompey’s Porch are percolating. (There’s some alliteration for ya. You’re welcome.)

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Season 2 Episode 2: Virility and Fertility, Julius Caesar, Act 1

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Meet the big man himself! Oh, yeah, and Caesar too. 😁 Antony runs a naked race through the streets flogging women with a goat thong so they could be more fertile. Don’t blame us. We didn’t write it!

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Season 2 Episode 1: Julius Grab the Girl, Julius Caesar Act 1

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Who are the villains? Who are the heroes? Are there any heroes in politics? Why do people like this play? Was JC a tyrant? Did Brutus stab him in the BALLS??!!! Answers to all these and more… will be attempted. 😏 We discuss Plutarch (*yawn*) and then quickly move on to blood and murder and overthrow of governments and some river named the Rubicon. Kicking off our second season with some hot Romans (at least we like to imagine Mark Antony with a sixpack and excellent cheekbones).

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Season Two Trailer

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Find out what’s in store for you in our shiny new season! Oooooh….

Coming up first in Season 2: Julius Caesar!! Stay tuned. Starts February 2nd.

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We’re baaaack! Season 2 kicks off with those rambunctious Romans! The stabby stabby play that everyone trots out every time a new controversial president comes around. But, let’s be clear, for the last time… TRUMP ISN’T CAESAR!

Glad we got that outta the way…