Julius Caesar

Title: Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare

Rating: ★⯪☆☆☆

Age Category: Young Adult/Adult

    A dramatic retelling of history, Shakespeare puts a new spin on the story of the death of Caesar and the end of the Roman Republic.

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"Music... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." - Leonard Bernstein -

Sonnet 47 by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 47

by William Shakespeare

Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thyself away art resent still with me;
For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,
And I am still with them and they with thee;
Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight
Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight.

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"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist." - Robert Schumann -

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"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie,

To lull the daughters of Necessity, 

And keep unsteady Nature to her law,

And the low world in measured motion draw

After the heavenly tune."

 

- John Milton -

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"[Music is] an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. - Johann Sebastian Bach -

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"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind." - Johannes Brahms -