jusplay4fun wrote:bigtoughralf wrote:Dukasaur wrote:bigtoughralf wrote:What's ides of March
You're supposed to be an Englishman, and you don't know your Shakespeare? Away, you starvelling, you elf-skin, you dried neat’s-tongue, bull’s-pizzle, you stock-fish!
British school kids are generally only force fed Shakespeare's romances and
tragedies, leaving me to learn about the Romans from computer games and
Gladiator instead

A suggestion for ralph: look up the tragedy Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare. You might learn something worthy.
ralph is a silly Englishman (or a fake one) if he knows so little about William Shakespeare, a playwright, and NOT a historian.
Let's go to reputable site to get facts and not offer just an (ill-informed) opinion:
Julius Caesar, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1599–1600 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of a promptbook. Based on Sir Thomas North’s 1579 translation (via a French version) of Plutarch’s Bioi parallēloi (Parallel Lives), the drama takes place in 44 BCE, after Caesar has returned to Rome.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Julius-Caesar-by-Shakespeareralph apparently does not now know nor did he learn much about this tragedy. Most artists, including Shakespeare, use history and facts to inspire them to tell their stories.
And the movie Gladiator was not about Julius Ceasar, so you learned that lesson poorly TOO. What a LOSER.
Thou sodden-witted lord! Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.