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From: All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 19960315
Author:
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Today is the Ides of March. To mark it, Robert Siegel reads from Shakespeare'
s tragedy "Julius Caesar," in which Brutus eulogizes the man he helped
murder.
NOAH ADAMS, Host: `Beware the Ides of March,' Shakespeare's soothsayer tells Caesar. He is dismissed as a dreamer, but his seeing is later proved clear - Caesar falls at the hand of a friend, of a countryman, of a Roman. The assassin speaks at the funeral of his victim.
ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: [reading part of Brutus from "Julius Caesar" ] If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of ...
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