On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, joanna bujes wrote:
> A friend sent me this recently...
>
> Just in Case Anyone Wondered Why We Still Read William Shakespeare:
>
> Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in
> order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for
> patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both
Ummm--this is bogus. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm has the scoop. (Evidently we do need to read more Shakespeare: it seemed vaguely plausible from my decades-old reading of Julius C., and then I googled it--)
Miles