>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--)
This is very easy after the fact but does "whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor" sound like Shakespeare?