Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Part 3

Gil Bailie examines William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar through the lens of René Girard. Shakespeare’s play looks at the volatile transition from republican Rome to Imperial Rome. In Act 3 the conspirators assassinate Caesar and attempt to sacralize their deed – to turn the murder into a sacrifice. Brutus asks his co-conspirators to dip their arms in Caesar’s blood and shout ‘peace, freedom, liberty’, using gore to give a greater gravity to their sacred violence. But this trick fails as Antony gives voice to the wounds of fallen Caesar. When sacred violence is compromised by the voice of its victim it no longer can constrain mimetic passions and all hell breaks loose… “let slip the dogs of war”.

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Part 2

Gil Bailie examines William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar through the lens of René Girard. Shakespeare’s play looks at the volatile transition from republican Rome to Imperial Rome. Act 2 begins with Brutus’ self-seduction into the conspiracy to kill Caesar. “Therefore it is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes, for who so firm that cannot be seduced?”

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Part 1

Gil Bailie examines William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar through the lens of René Girard. Shakespeare’s play looks at the volatile transition from republican Rome to Imperial Rome. One of the chief protagonists of the drama is the ‘crowd’ or better the ‘mob’. This play was one of the primary sources from which Girard drew his mimetic theory.

Dante’s Paradiso Part 8

With the exception of the gospels, nothing in Western literature has the evocative power and transforming effect of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Gil Bailie, in these presentations, analyzes in detail Dante’s Paradiso; culminating in Dante's experience of the beatific vision and the union of will and desire.

Dante’s Paradiso Part 7

With the exception of the gospels, nothing in Western literature has the evocative power and transforming effect of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Gil Bailie, in these presentations, analyzes in detail Dante’s Paradiso; culminating in Dante's experience of the beatific vision and the union of will and desire.

Dante’s Paradiso Part 6

With the exception of the gospels, nothing in Western literature has the evocative power and transforming effect of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Gil Bailie, in these presentations, analyzes in detail Dante’s Paradiso; culminating in Dante's experience of the beatific vision and the union of will and desire.

Dante’s Paradiso Part 5

With the exception of the gospels, nothing in Western literature has the evocative power and transforming effect of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Gil Bailie, in these presentations, analyzes in detail Dante’s Paradiso; culminating in Dante's experience of the beatific vision and the union of will and desire.

Dante’s Paradiso Part 4

With the exception of the gospels, nothing in Western literature has the evocative power and transforming effect of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Gil Bailie, in these presentations, analyzes in detail Dante’s Paradiso; culminating in Dante's experience of the beatific vision and the union of will and desire.

Dante’s Paradiso Part 3

With the exception of the gospels, nothing in Western literature has the evocative power and transforming effect of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Gil Bailie, in these presentations, analyzes in detail Dante’s Paradiso; culminating in Dante's experience of the beatific vision and the union of will and desire.

Dante’s Paradiso Part 2

With the exception of the gospels, nothing in Western literature has the evocative power and transforming effect of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Gil Bailie, in these presentations, analyzes in detail Dante’s Paradiso; culminating in Dante's experience of the beatific vision and the union of will and desire.