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Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. The author, focusing his attention on Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar, here demonstrates how Shakespeare so wonderfully made these ancient devices vivid, giving his characters...
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Jonathan Dimbleby places Shakespeare in perspective with a personal view of the play he describes as a "chillingly precise metaphor about power and politicians." The program includes extracts of BBC Drama productions of Julius Caesar as well as clips of British political leaders including Thatcher, Callaghan and Foot.
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This work-the only Shakespeare tragedy considered to have its roots in the classics-is a study in contradiction. Though it is about the character of Brutus, it has Caesar as its dominant figure. This and other complexities and themes of the drama are investigated through the performance of key scenes by noted Shakespearean experts from the Shakespeare Centre and the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon Avon. Themes and topics include politics and...
12) Julius Caesar
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The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare's Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwright's free-ranging political analysis. -- Publisher.
13) Julius Caesar
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A fully illustrated account of the life, achievement, & importance of Julius Caesar, from his early years to his assumption of dictatorial power over the Roman Empire, & his brutal death.
17) Julius Caesar
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This program provides a study of Julius Caesar - general, statesman, absolute ruler of Rome.
18) Julius Caesar
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A fast-moving thriller about a struggle for democracy, William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is also a love story between two men united by an explosive act of political violence.Based on the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed stage production, Gregory Doran's film for BBC Television sets the action in post-independence Africa. With echos of the recent overthrow of dictators during the 'Arab Spring', the production explores the implications of political...
19) Julius Caesar
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Part of a major collection of criticism on widely studied fictional characters from world literature.
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Between 58 and 50 BC Julius Caesar fought a bloody campaign to absorb the whole of Gaul - modern-day France - into the Roman Empire. In his account of this period, De Bello Gallico, Caesar portrayed his actions as heroic, yet over this period he killed one million people, took another million hostages and destroyed 800 cities. In light of this, this program examines whether his account was merely a masterpiece of propaganda that disguised the grim...
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