Description
Book SynopsisPresents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction: political theatre
1. “So are they all, all honourable men”: Julius Caesar before the Second World War
2. The rise of European Fascism: Welles at the Mercury Theater
3. (Un) American identities: Mankiewicz (1953)
4. Wise saws and modern(ist) instances: Anderson, Barton and Nunn
5. Glories past: the minor films
6. The Romans in Britain. Caesar under Thatcher
7. Accents yet unknown: Global Caesars
8. ‘Growing on the South’: Georgia Shakespeare 2001 and 2009
9. A strange disposed time: Caesar at the Millenium
Appendix: major cast and company staff of select twentieth century productions
Bibliography
Index
