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Article: JULIUS CAESAR
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- April 6, 2005
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Faint praise for Caesar: It's better than a thousand recycled pop-catalog Broadway musicals
JULIUS CAESAR
By William Shakespeare
Belasco Theatre
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Most of Shakespeare's plays require an audience to make one time-jump, back to the era of his language and his social conventions. His plays set in ancient Rome, like Julius Caesar, are trickier to stage'because they require two such jumps: first to Shakespeare's England, then to that England's conception of the classical past. Julius Caesar is full of lines about what it is to be a Roman, and situations set up to display the Elizabethan idea of Roman standards of conduct. At the same time, its ...