...temere, Cesare, non è pericoloso: È un romano nobile e bene intenzionato. CASSAI Would he were fetter! But I fear him not; Yet if my name were liable to...avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, 200 He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. He loves no plays, As thou...

...dangerous. / Ant. Fear him not, Caesar, he s not dangerous. / He is a noble Roman, and well given. I Caes. Would he were fatter! But I fear him not: /Yet if...Antony; he hears no music. / Seldom he smiles, and suiiles in such a sort / As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit /That could be mov'd to smile...

...He senses the danger in Cassius yet his sense of himself stops him from taking a pre-emptive strike: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know...man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He puts aside the sought-out warnings of soothsayers but is temporarily influenced by his wife, Calphurnia,...

...uses to distinguish his beloved and trusted Antony from those he fears, such as Cassius, is startling: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know...avoid So soon as that spare Cassius . . . . . . He loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony, he hears no music (1.2.199-201, 203-204). The similarity between...

...dangerous. 205 ANTONY Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous. He is a noble Roman, and well given. CAESAR Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my...liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid 210 215. sort: manner 221. rather tell thee: tell thee rather 223. on my right hand: to my right-hand...

...quick spirit that is in Antony" (1.2.28-29) and Caesar has pointed to the same shortcoming in Cassius: I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that...no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music (1.2.200-04). Instead, he would turn what Casca senses is theater into a metaphor that drives forward...

...some comparison of the inward and the outward. Caesar's confession to Antony frames Cassius's opinion: I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that...observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. (1.2.200-3) Regardless of how we judge him, Cassius surely lives up to Caesar's estimation as he explains...

...play. Caesar's response is perceptive, and deliberately juxtaposes Antony to Cassius; Cassius, he says, "reads much, / He is a great observer, and he looks...no plays / As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music" (1.2.201-4). Caesar's remark about Cassius as a "great observer" is evident over and over again in...

...ANTONIUS. Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous; He is a noble Roman, and well given. JULIUS CAESAR. Would he were fatter! — but I fear him not: Yet...hears no music: Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a son As if he mockt himself, and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such...