I very much enjoy how I can listen to these videos as a podcast once and absorb the information, and then come back and watch it to check out what Ms Mouse was up to and catch the animations
@euthymialy
6 ай бұрын
I was about to comment this exact thing, love the replay-ability of these videos! ❤ love Miss Mouse
@HierarchofTowers
6 ай бұрын
i'm surprised and apalled this vid only has 68 likes. here's one more, i'll be gnawing through your entire back catalogue now!
@chrisogrady28
6 ай бұрын
Glad you made it nice
@tierrajones6210
2 ай бұрын
I'm 4 months behind you, and I agree, her channel is AMAZING.
@kevinb9327
9 ай бұрын
Best 34 minutes I've spent on KZitem! 👍
@emilyrln
6 ай бұрын
I'd be curious to know what the Tea Party thought of the Obama version of Julius Caesar. Something makes me doubt they would be equally as outraged by his assassination.
@ellywhitcombe5007
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating. A clear and objective talk covering many aspects of human complexity and creating a curiosity for further learning.
@books_ncats
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, glad it’s generating a curiosity for the topic
@christophermaund336
Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this video very much. Great production. Thank you!
@books_ncats
Жыл бұрын
Ah thank you! That’s really good to know, pleased you enjoyed it 😊
@chrisogrady28
Жыл бұрын
The commentary about populism sounds so much like GB news. My parents seem practically susceptible to populist rhetoric, despite being long term left wingers, they are pulled by the messaging of "we are for the people, there's no guff here, this is what everyone's thinking but is too scared to say, we are brave and we will say it FOR YOU!"
@books_ncats
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, interesting how that kind of rhetoric crops up throughout history, and is still prevalent today
@normalgamergal
Жыл бұрын
Very good video! I love that you give deep dives on classics and how they relate to modern day. Definitely ended up more prescient than I'm assuming anyone expected. I did notice one weird thing. I was listening with headphones, and the first Trump speech you showed only came through on the left ear. Not a big deal, obviously, and it was only for that clip, but something you could look out for in the future 😊
@books_ncats
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video and found the topic as interesting as we did. We're planning on doing more videos on similar topics in the future, for sure. The audio glitch was definitely not meant to be there... 😅 normally I check it all with headphones but this time it was also with speakers - lesson learnt there. - Matty
@isabellegrimshaw4378
Жыл бұрын
Such an interesting topic!
@thecutepoppet
5 ай бұрын
I wish I could like this a million times over and get you the recognition you deserve
@robertsyrett1992
Ай бұрын
The parallels continue to be uncomfortably close.
@scotthendrix9829
6 ай бұрын
How does this excellent analysis have fewer than 200 likes! Great job- thank you for sharing your expertise with us!
@rohanhansen471
Ай бұрын
Your videos are fantastic! This is better analysis than much of what i had in college. Thank you! Please keep sharing your knowledge and insights!
@Lexithepoptart
Ай бұрын
I had no idea what Julius Caesar was actually about. My private, conservative school had us memorize Anytony’s speech in snippets for Grandparent’s Day. None of us had any idea the meaning or context of what we were saying. We put on an abridged version of the play a few years later that ended with Antony’s speech (I was Antony :D)
@kapitankapital6580
Жыл бұрын
Tbf if I had to watch another "modern dress" Shakespeare play I think I'd want to burn the theatre to the ground too...
@caramazzola2399
6 ай бұрын
I'm really enjoying your channel! Please keep it up. I always thought it strange how Trump markets himself as an everyman while his Trump Towers are dripping with hideous opulence.
@editdebreceni3186
Ай бұрын
Wish I was sophisticated enough in english to tell you about a contemporary hungarian theatre director/writer Béla Pintér. I bet you'd love the Shakespeare themes he uses with the current political stories
@theparanormalentomologist2234
6 ай бұрын
Mouse for President!
@chrisogrady28
6 ай бұрын
Based comment
@Rikalonius
Жыл бұрын
I found this on my KZitem recommends, so I watched it. Possibly because I'm a person who has deeply researched the life of the historic Julius Caesar and the tumultuous last 60 years of the Roman Republic in its death throes. So other videos on Rome probably led to this recommend. It was a good video. I enjoyed it. Now, I remember the day I first caught word via the news of this play. I actually thought it was interesting. I wasn't offended, even though I think Trump was a decent president. Thank you for showing the speech from the Eustis. I hadn't heard that before. In retrospect, it was quite prescient. I've always liked Antony's speech, not because it is particularly historically accurate; even given Appian's writings, which is what Shakespeare based his play from, but it was, as you say, a good use of rhetoric. I particularly like Brando's depiction, as his final dismissive, "who...as you know is an honorable man" is just properly seething with contemptuous undertones. In reality however, Brutus and the other conspirators where still hold up on Capitoline Hill behind a contingent of gladiator bodyguards on the day of the oration. Almost no Roman legionaries were close by, so there wasn't the force of troops available to dislodge them. Cicero brokered some peace between Antony and Brutus, but of course it didn't last. Also, Antony ran to his house, disguised as a slave, in the chaotic aftermath. He did however give the funeral oration, and using a wax effigy and a crane, did incite the people against the senate, but his charge was that they turned him against him for honors they themselves had granted him. Though it could surely be argued it was done under duress. One thing the play does get right is that Brutus' only target was Caesar, and he expressly forbid anyone else from being harmed, even though Antony was hated because he was considered an unserious candidate, a drunkard, and a womanizer. All of which was true. He was also very violent and the conspirators feared his retaliation, but Brutus persisted that Antony not be harmed. But, Julius Caesar as a populist. I wouldn't say that, though he found some popular support, mostly by doling out war booty take from Gaul. Caesar had come up through the cursus honorum like any Roman aristocrat. Yes, he had that whole run from Sulla to Asia Minor thing in early 20s, but from the time he returned he followed a very well trodden path. He achieved every office, even making Consul in "his year" the year he turned 40, albeit with help from Pompey and Cassias. He then went off to Gaul for 10 years. When he wanted to run for Consul again, the Senate, fearing him, worked in every back-biting way possible to, lead mostly by Cato and Cicero, to keep Caesar from obtaining his second consulship, which is why Caesar chose to take his army across the tradition boundary, the tiny river called the Rubicon. Auctoritas was at stake, as well as the very real threat of prosecution, not because he did anything any normal Roman would have done in Gaul, but because he was successful at it. I could argue, and I've probably written to much already, that Caesar was trying to right the ship of state, but either saw he could only do it through absolute dictatorship, or liked his position too much and wouldn't relinquish it. The conspirators rushed their assassination because Caesar was leaving for Parthia, modern Iran/Iraq and part of Turkey, to both avenge Cassias, but also because conquering what was once the Persian empire would set him above Alexander the Great in his own mind. Trump on the other had was an outsider. He would have been what the Romans called Novus Homo, or new man, a politician who reaches Senatorial rank basically by money, like Pompey's father or even Cicero. Trump was opposed by both Democrats and Republicans alike, which led to his appeal. That and Hillary's huge unlikability factor. Yes, there is a certain amount of populism, but like in Caesar's time, a portion of the population was getting tired of watching Washington engorge themselves while making more and more laws that seemingly benefit no one. It can be argued, and it has been, that Caesar was killed by Brutus and company, not because he was a dictator, but because he was choosing people for government positions, and that the normal process of backstabbing and political skullduggery by which candidates clawed their way up the ever shrinking pyramid of elected positions to Consul, was being disrupted. Caesar was upsetting the applecart, so speak. In Trump's case, it was similar. Trump was a wealthy democrat (at first) donor and business man who is supposed to give money to politicians, not try to become one, thereby keeping out people who have worked their whole lives to reach those positions. So when Trump became president, like Caesar, the elites wanted to destroy him. Both, in different ways, were trying to right the ship of state from what perceived as abject corruption.
@books_ncats
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, pleased you enjoyed the video, and for sharing your thoughts - interesting comparison between the real life events and Shakespeare’s play
@ossie200
Ай бұрын
This has suddenty become very topical and I'm suprised it hasnt started trending or something😂
@the-neeerd
2 ай бұрын
do...people not know....what happened to Caesar? even if they never read the play, people must know what happened to Caesar. Were people genuinely surprised by the play?
@johncarroll772
Жыл бұрын
Caligula is running again.
@donaldreed2351
Жыл бұрын
Oh, wow. Trump as Caesar? It's another reminder of how great art can be so dangerous.
@madisonreads1876
4 ай бұрын
Damn, so you just didn't watch this at all and never read the play, did you.
@catsmom129
Ай бұрын
@@madisonreads1876Interesting. I took “great art can be so dangerous” as a compliment. Like, wow, that’s provocative! It’s not entirely clear, though, how they meant it.
@kendrickcurriculum
6 ай бұрын
I can't stop laughing: Trumpers know what Shakespeare is?! And I missed this whole debacle?! Also, super fun to see outsiders try to wade through the ugliness of United States politics. I'm worried for your sanity 😂
@prinpelletier7754
6 ай бұрын
8:50 looks like Trump in drag. But much much more eloquent.
@prinpelletier7754
6 ай бұрын
"Violence against Republicans"! 😂 it's just extra hilarious wishful victimhood in retrospect. What a Karen. (Referring to the lady interviewed around 7 min)
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