Srlsy Elizabeth Taylor still bursts off the screen, she was so beautiful and so powerful

Does anyone know of a good streaming version of Shakespeare’s Julius Cesar? I can’t stop comparing this (Elizabeth Taylor’s Cleopatra) and Julius Cesar

I haven’t read Shakespeare’s Cesar for a decade or more and yet I can almost anticipate every word. I love this play. I can’t wait to watch ‘I Claudius’ though because who doesn’t love trashy Roman soap operas?

@Moxitude No, no you are not. It upsets me every time I think about it.

@Sophronisba just breaks my heart!

@Moxitude Yes, and for extra bawling, think of the sacking of the House of Wisdom during the Siege of Baghdad in 1258.

Quoth the Wikipedia: 'According to the writings of an eyewitness to the Siege, "So many books were thrown into the Tigris River that they formed a bridge that would support a man on horseback."'

@kwarizmi oh my goddess thanks for breaking my heart y’all. Wtf! All that knowledge!

@Moxitude Britbox has it (also available through Prime for a fee). It’s the 1979 BBC version.

@sanau Oohh thanks! I can jump from cleopatra to that and then to I Claudius!

@Moxitude I loved I, Claudius. So much so that I sought out Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars after watching the PBS series.

@GlennS I started that after seeing it too! I just got distracted along the way with life

@Moxitude Not at all :( I also grieve the loss of wisdom due to colonialization around the world pretty frequently.

@Tattoomonkey29 so many things destroyed. So much knowledge. It wrenches me in my soul