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Caesar is the title of Orson Welles's innovative 1937 adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, a modern-dress bare-stage production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often abbreviated as Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. In the play, Brutus joins a conspiracy led by Cassius to assassinate Julius Caesar , to prevent him from becoming a tyrant.
Julius Caesar. Subject. Mercury Theatre on the Air. Description. Adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar". Creator. Welles, Orson, 1915-1985. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Date. 9/11/1938.
Credit for this idea goes to Orson Welles and his remarkable Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theatre in New York in 1937. Nineteenth-century American productions had found their counterpart to John Philip Kemble in Edwin Booth (1833-93), whose style dominated the staging of Julius Caesar until Welles swept it aside in the most popular production ...
Feb 10, 2022 · English. x, 297 p., [18] p. of plates : 25 cm. Includes adaptations of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Julius Caesar, and Welles's Five kings, adapted from Shakespeare and based on Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Dec 21, 2021 · Placing Welles’s work in the context of earlier U.S. reception of Julius Caesar, I examine its dialectical relation with Shakespeare’s words and imagery and focus on the metatheatrical – or metacommunicative – aspects of his creations: spectacles of power for American audiences of the 1930s and early 1940s.
