On a deeper dive into Julius Caesar, I’m finding something unusual:
You’d figure that in a play with fewer prose lines, the rhythm and meter of the verse lines would take on more importance, right? Well, for a play with so few prose lines–I think aside from Titus Andronicus, Caesar has the lowest prose/verse ratio within the tragedies–I’m finding a boatload of short poetic lines with awkward rhythm.
What this signifies, I haven’t a clue at the moment. Just an observation.
On the other hand, maybe my underlying logic is wrong: maybe a play with few prose lines means that the short lines aren’t as important (as they are so few in comparison to the number of full poetic lines).
Thoughts?