This book. This freaking book. I had to send it back to the library but I took pictures of each page
This book. This freaking book. I had to send it back to the library but I took pictures of each page. I may have to start a YouTube series called the Angry History Nerd over this thing. It’s a “Young Reader’s Shakespeare” version of Julius Caesar. I’ll give it this much- the pictures are pretty. More on that later.Unfortunately the text is not Shakespeare or anything akin to Shakespeare except for maybe one or two famous lines. A kids’ version of Shakespeare doesn’t have to be completely freaking unrecognizably rewritten. One of the biggest problems with this book is the completely useless replacement of characters (Pindarus and Titinius are both replaced with Casca. Yes. Publius freaking Casca. And Strato is replaced with… Artemidorus. I’ll get back to you when I stop screaming from confusion.) and repurposed scenes (Portia seeing what is originally Casca’s dream? Okay that’s it I give up.) I’m perversely curious about the other installments in this series. Oh yes, they’ve done other plays. How messed up are they? I’m not sure what they would do to others considering what they did to Julius Caesar. Okay, now what I find the least angering but still weird thing about this book. The pictures are based off of the actors in the 2002 TNT miniseries on the life of Julius Caesar (not the play) starring Jeremy Sisto as Caesar, with Ian Duncan as Brutus, Tobias Moretti as Cassius, Chris Noth as Pompey, and Christopher Walken as Cato the Younger (I am not making this up. I have it on DVD). My question is HOW ON EARTH DID THIS BOOK END UP BEING DESIGNED AFTER AN OBSCURE TNT MOVIE ABOUT JULIUS CAESAR. AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO NOTICED THIS.Okay I give up. For once in my life I am speechless. I can’t explain the existence of this book. We can all go home now. -- source link
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