The Village Voice, April 6th, 2005
Faint praise for Caesar: It's better than a thousand recycled pop-catalog Broadway musicals
JULIUS CAESAR
By William Shakespeare
Belasco Theatre
11 West44th Street
212-239-6200
CHOPPERS OVER PHILIPPI
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, ...
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