Friends, Romans, countrymen, give me your attention

And you too, Brutus?" is what students read in a new genre of study guides that modernize the Elizabethan English found in "Julius Caesar" and other plays by William Shakespeare.

"Translations can be used as a wonderful tool to get students excited," she said, "but it does not replace Shakespeare's poetry."

"Beware the ides of March."
— Act 1, Scene 2.

"Beware of March 15."
— Same scene, "No Fear Shakespeare" translation.

Shouldn't that be April 15? Oh, wrong ides.

from Atlanta Journal-Constitution