re: #28 sagehen

The director of the 2012 Obama Julius Caesar has some thoughts:

medium.com

This second-order correspondent also thinks the play ends with the death of Caesar, as if they are killing the bad guy at the end of a superhero movie. In fact, the assassination takes place in the middle of the play, the rest of which deals with the terrible consequences of this action. Shakespeare built the outrage into the text. Mark Antony is so outraged — for himself, and on our behalf — that outrage suffuses the play’s entire second half. If you see a production, you get outraged with the play, not against it.

That’s the famous “Friends, Romans, Countrymen….” speech, right??

IOW, a dramatic trope that’s been around for 400 or so years - but only now is somehow Awful and Evil because Donald Trump…??

Trying to compose a retort that doesn’t amount to “piss off, you philistine assholes”, and failing…