Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare
Rating: 10+++
Reading age: 14

Now, I haven't read any of Shakespeare's plays apart from this one: I just don't need to know all the sordid details...*ahem*. However, this one is completely void of that, because it is about politics in ancient Rome. (There is one inappropriate mention in the beginning from the notes of "the Annotated Shakespeare" copy, but it may or may not be translated from old English correctly).

Anyway, I devoured this play in about two days--it was that interesting. It is, as the title says, about Julius Caesar, but instead of stopping with the assassination, it goes on through the decisive battle of Philippi (Brutus and Cassius vs. Octavian and Antony). It is very interesting to read of such well-known events as the Triumvirate and the soothsayer who is said to foretell the happenings of the Ides of March as written by somebody who lived 400 years ago.

All in all, this book was a satisfactory read: well written (of course, it is Shakespeare) and void of the inappropriate intrigue and debauchery.