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What is the effect of Shakespeare and decision to open the play with a scene featuring a cobbler and other commoners?
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Julius Caesar opens with a scene where some workmen are partying on because Caesar has defeated the sons of Pompey. Basically, any excuse for a party, right? But a couple of tribunes object because this was a civil war and Pompey was not only a Roman but a great one at that. Caesar will later have these tribunes strangled without trial (because he is not a bloodthirsty dictator, right?). You will notice that none of the important characters in the play appear in this scene. Shakespeare often delayed the appearance of the main characters to the second scene to give the audience a chance to settle down, realize the play had started, grab a beer etc. The scene, for those who were actually paying attention, tells the audience that Caesar is the kind of leader who is idolized by the ignorant and unthinking, but who alarms, offends and even frightens the thinking part of the population. This perspective makes Brutus and Cassius's conversation which follows more comprehensible. (To say nothing of Antony's funeral speech)
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When is a cobbler not a person that makes shoes?
A cobbler would not be a person who make shoes if the cobbler is a dessert or iced drink.
What does this quote means sir please don't be angry but if your soles are worn out i cand mend you?
This quotation in from the "No Fear Shakespeare" version of Julius Caesar Act 1 Scene 1 and is an excellent example of why No Fear Shakespeare is a waste of time and why it should be abolished from classrooms. The notion is that if we replace Shakespeare's lines with something very simplistic then people will understand them more easily. It doesn't work, as this question shows. In fact, the sentence makes no sense and does not capture Shakespeare's meaning at all. The real line is "Nay, I beseech you sir, be not out with me; yet if you be out, sir, I can mend you." This cobbler likes to make puns and Marullus, the tribune who he is talking to is, like many straight men (I mean a comedian's sidekick here, not someone who is not gay; Shakespeare would love that ambiguity) is pretty thick. Marullus keeps on asking what the cobbler's job is and the cobbler keeps on making jokes. "Be not out with me" does mean being out of temper or angry, but this cobbler makes a pun on "being out". When he says "be not out with me" he means out of temper, but when he says "if you be out" he means out of condition or broken and he is talking about Marullus's shoes. His line "I can mend you" on the face means "I can mend your broken shoes", but he has just made a joke about being "a mender of bad soles" which is clearly a pun on "bad souls", so it also suggests that the cobbler can mend Marullus, who has a bad soul that needs mending. Marullus catches the insult and rages "Mend me, thou saucy fellow?" See? It makes sense if you read Shakespeare's words.
Who is Wagner's shoemaker in his opera?
Hans Sachs is the cobbler in 'Meistersinger'
In Julius Caesar why are the carpenter and the cobbler celebrating?
They are celebrating in Caesar's victory and it was also the feast of Lupercal.
Why does Shakespeare start the scene with a humorous tone as the tribunes speak with the carpenter and the cobbler?
Shakespeare knew that it sometimes takes a while for an audience to settle down, so he liked to start his plays either with a bombshell like witches coming up out of the floor (Macbeth) or a storm at sea (Tempest), or alternatively with a light scene which does not involve the main characters as in Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. The relatively unimportant first scene can be missed by the patrons still negotiating with the orange girls without impairing their understanding of the whole play.
What was the trade of the mender of bad soles?
The trade for the mender of bad soles is a cobbler. This is a person who repairs or makes shoes. It is from Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare.
One who mends your shoes?
Cobbler or Shoe Cobbler
What is the feminine of cobbler?
What is feminine gender of cobbler
How do you know if something is a cobbler?
If it makes shoes, it's a cobbler.
What is another word for cobbler?
Another word for a cobbler is a "shoemaker."
What did a cobbler work on?
i think a cobbler makes shoes
When is a cobbler not a person that makes shoes?
A cobbler would not be a person who make shoes if the cobbler is a dessert or iced drink.
What is the duration of The Old Cobbler?
The duration of The Old Cobbler is 1200.0 seconds.
Can you give me sentence in tools-cobbler?
the cobbler's tools is very dirty
What is the name of a cobbler work place?
That could be a 'Shoemaker' or just 'Cobbler'
Is cobbler a two syllable word?
Yes, cobbler has two syllables.
Is cherry cobbler a sweet dessert?
Yes, cherry cobbler is a sweet dessert.
