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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.
(CBS) Julius Caesar - Orson Welles - Shakespeare - 1938 - "A" - HD Fully Restored and RemasteredShakespeare Network - copyrighted restoration work - all righ...
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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.
Jun 6, 2018 · Narration adapted from the original Plutarch Text on the life of Julius Caesar. ...more. From the Ariel Records LP. (SHO9) The Mercury Theatre Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Julius...
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Feb 25, 2008 · Welles performances of Shakespeare, from radio broadcasts and 78-speed records.
Julius Caesar tells the story of how the Roman Republic came to its end. The Republic was viewed as a high point in history, both by its participants and by those who came after, because its institutions divided power among a number of people (senators and tribunes) rather than concentrating it in one person.
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 ...
