Heh, no need to apologize -- I've been following your entries, so I know you've got a hell of a lot on your plate.

I really like the point about Brutus' emotional blindness.

Thanks. You know, I saw the play with my brother, who's high-functioning autistic. He's usually bored at plays, but he said he liked this one. I wonder if he identified at all with Brutus, as autism is emotional blindness in the extreme -- my brother has the experience of being genuinely baffled by other people's emotions on a daily basis.