Julius Caesar (play)
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a play by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's source was Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Brutus and Life of Caesar. The play was probably written in 1599.[1] The play was likely one of Shakespeare's first plays to be performed at the Globe Theatre.[2] A Swiss traveller saw a tragedy about Julius Caesar at a London theatre on 21 September 1599. This was probably Shakespeare's play. It was first published in 1623 in the First Folio, a collection of all of Shakespeare's plays. The play is about the 44 BC assassination of Julius Caesar. The play has been filmed three times. In a 1950 movie, Charlton Heston played Antony. In a 1953 movie, James Mason played Brutus and Marlon Brando played Antony. In a 1970 movie, Jason Robards Jr. played Brutus, Charlton Heston played Antony, and John Gielgud played Caesar.
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- ↑ Shakespeare, William; Arthur Humphreys (Editor) (1999). Julius Caesar. Oxford University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0192836064. http://books.google.com/books?id=Soh9UVaIqRMC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- ↑ Evans, G. Blakemore: "The Riverside Shakespeare", page 1100, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974.
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- Text of Julius Caesar, fully edited by John Cox, as well as original-spelling text, facsimiles of the 1623 Folio text, and other resources, at the Internet Shakespeare Editions
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- No Fear Shakespeare Includes the play line by line with interpretation.
- All Julius Caesar Provides a summary of the play, background on Shakespeare and Julius Caesar, including historical background on Julius Caesar, and a character analysis of Caesar.
- Julius Caesar – searchable, indexed e-text
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- Quicksilver Radio Theater adaptation of "Julius Caesar", which may be heard online, at PRX.org (Public Radio Exchange).
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