Synopsis
When journalists reported being unsettled by a production of Julius Caesar in 2017, a furious row erupted over what the play was really saying about contemporary US politics.
Prefaces to Shakespeare | Julius Caesar
The actor Ronald Pickup gives his personal view of Julius Caesar with commercial extracts. "I've never believed that Shakespeare has to be dragged by the scruff of his neck into the 20th century, presenting, let us say. Julius Caesar as a Hitler figure and everybody else around him in jackboots. Julius Caesar is certainly a play about power-politics, but bound up with that is a strong moral sense." These talks were given as curtain raisers to the transmission of the BBC Television Shakespeare plays.
Drama | Julius Caesar
A new production in three parts of Shakespeare's great political drama: Cassius persuades Brutus that Caesar's ambition is a threat to the republic, and a conspiracy is formed.