Julius Caesar.

Julius Caesar -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: POLITICAL THEATRE -- CHAPTER 1: 'So are they all, all honourable men': Julius Caesar before the Second World War -- CHAPTER II: The rise of European Fascism: Welles at the Mercury Theatre -- CHAPTER III: (Un)American identities: Mankiewicz (1953) -- CHAPTER IV: Wise saws and Modern(ist) instances: Anderson, Barton and Nunn -- CHAPTER V: Glories past: the minor films -- CHAPTER VI: The Romans in Britain: Caesar under Thatcher -- CHAPTER VII: Accents yet unknown: global Caesars -- CHAPTER VIII: 'Growing on the South': Georgia Shakespeare 2001 and 2009 -- CHAPTER IX: A strange disposed time: Caesar at the millennium -- APPENDIX: Major cast and company staff of select twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Presents 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.

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