Funeral Declamation in Shakespeare's “Julius Caesar”
FUNERAL DECLAMATION IN SHAKESPEARE’S “JULIUS CAESAR”
“What we learn through pleasure, we never forget” (A.Mercier), while “Pleasure is the flower that passes, remembrance, the lasting perfume” (Jean de
Boufflers). Some scenes in literature stick in the mind well, even after the book goes back to the shelf. One such celebrated scene is the funeral oration in the play “Julius Caesar”, created by the multi-faceted maestro, William Shakespeare.
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em” -Twelfth Night As for his own greatness, Shakespeare certainly took the second path. He “achieved greatness” by his astonishing skill with the English language. The world’s most performed playwright had an incomparable ability to capture the verities of human existence in a few well-chosen words. He expressed deep thoughts and feelings in words of great beauty and power. No other writer in the world is so quotable or so often quoted. Nowhere else in literature is there a like storehouse of the most delightful and the greatest ideas phrased with utmost power of condensed expression and figurative beauty. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about thirty-seven plays, one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, two long narrative poems and several other poems. “Julius Caesar” is a tragedy based on the Roman history, by this transcendent and unbounded genius. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius
Caesar, his assassination and
“What we learn through pleasure, we never forget” (A.Mercier), while “Pleasure is the flower that passes, remembrance, the lasting perfume” (Jean de
Boufflers). Some scenes in literature stick in the mind well, even after the book goes back to the shelf. One such celebrated scene is the funeral oration in the play “Julius Caesar”, created by the multi-faceted maestro, William Shakespeare.
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon’em” -Twelfth Night As for his own greatness, Shakespeare certainly took the second path. He “achieved greatness” by his astonishing skill with the English language. The world’s most performed playwright had an incomparable ability to capture the verities of human existence in a few well-chosen words. He expressed deep thoughts and feelings in words of great beauty and power. No other writer in the world is so quotable or so often quoted. Nowhere else in literature is there a like storehouse of the most delightful and the greatest ideas phrased with utmost power of condensed expression and figurative beauty. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about thirty-seven plays, one hundred and fifty-four sonnets, two long narrative poems and several other poems. “Julius Caesar” is a tragedy based on the Roman history, by this transcendent and unbounded genius. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius
Caesar, his assassination and