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Feb 2024
1h 17m

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Jared Henderson & Wesley Walker
About this episode

“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.”

On this episode, Dr. Junius Johnson and Fr. Wesley Walker sit down with Heidi White to talk about Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Why does Caesar appear so little in a play in which he is the titular character? How should we think about the actions of Brutus and his co-conspirators? What lessons about friendship can we learn from this work? What is the relationship between rhetoric and crowds? These are just some of the questions that get covered in the episode.

End Notes:

* Junius: Dear Brutus by J.M. Barrie

* Heidi: Caesar Must Die (2012)

* Wesley: The Ides of March (2011)



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