Sweet time

I love it when I have finished reading the play, and even the complementary readings, and it is time to pick up gold nuggets from a mountain of books (ok, a small hill) that I now treasure. Let's take a look at some of today's finds:

Julius Caesar was the first play presented at the new Globe Theater, where our Wills had a 10% ownership share! Since the actor who played the fool back then was another co-owner, who had a falling out and left the company, WS wrote JC without a part for a fool. It is unexpected that they chose a historic play rather than a comedy for their inaugural run, but the play was relevant for the recent assassination conspiracy against Elizabeth, which listeners would have automatically identified. (Greenblatt 293).

JC includes a "leather" reference, as the cobbler in the play "resoles shoes made of neat's leather." (Greenblatt 56)

Prepare to be blown away by what I found in "Soul of the Age," better know as "el libro que me regaló Jesus." Between pages 104 and 106, the author explains how Parallel Lives by Plutarch shaped, not only Julius Caesar by providing the biographical clues to the main characters, but also informed the way William would write historical plays, by concentrating on telling lives, rather than histories, and posing questions, instead of providing solutions! Not to be missed!

Another Bate jewel starts on page 78,where from the exercises little William had to master latin grammar at the second form (or level, not sure what grade), he learns the rhetorical tools that will reach their highest flight in Mark Antony's oration. This is not to be missed!

I'll continue tomorrow with lessons learned from Bloom and then from Garber, who again impressed me with her profound analysis.