Julius Caesar: Contemporary Razzle Dazzle that Captures the Heart of Shakespeare’s Play
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Brutus must never have heard the expression, “Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” Otherwise, he might well have refused to join with Cassius and his co-conspirators in the assassination of Julius Caesar, an act that brings on the demons of civil strife and personal tragedy.
Then again, had Brutus heeded that expression we would have had neither William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar nor its engaging, if flawed, new version by director Charles McFarland and the Ottawa Shakespeare Company.