julius caesar (again)

GIP! That's John Gielgud as Cassius in the 1953 film. Yes, I am a fanboy.

I recently had a chance to chat over dinner with the chronically AFK Malograntum about Julius Caesar. We'd coincidentally seen the same recent production, so we largely talked about the specifics of that, but we did also spend a lot of time on the play in general. The following covers most of what we discussed; I wanted to write it all out so that I could think a bit more carefully about it. Comments/disagreements are quite welcome.

EDIT: I've added a paragraph on Cassius' forged letters. I thought I'd mentioned them, but apparently I forgot.

( Junia )

( Portia & Cassius )

( Seduction )

I have to say, Mal and I have the best conversations ever. I don't even *know* what's bouncing around in my brain until we start hashing it out. For those of you to whom this means something, it was directly because of conversations like this that "Void Sale" got written.

julius caesar (again)

GIP! That's John Gielgud as Cassius in the 1953 film. Yes, I am a fanboy.

I recently had a chance to chat over dinner with the chronically AFK Malograntum about Julius Caesar. We'd coincidentally seen the same recent production, so we largely talked about the specifics of that, but we did also spend a lot of time on the play in general. The following covers most of what we discussed; I wanted to write it all out so that I could think a bit more carefully about it. Comments/disagreements are quite welcome.

EDIT: I've added a paragraph on Cassius' forged letters. I thought I'd mentioned them, but apparently I forgot.

( Junia )

( Portia & Cassius )

( Seduction )

I have to say, Mal and I have the best conversations ever. I don't even *know* what's bouncing around in my brain until we start hashing it out. For those of you to whom this means something, it was directly because of conversations like this that "Void Sale" got written.