Julius Caesar

Resource Information

The work Julius Caesar represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Julius Caesar

Statement of responsibility

by William Shakespeare ; produced by BBC & Time-Life Films ; executive producer WNET: Jac Venza ; director: Herbert Wise

Contributor

• Time-Life Films
• Collings, David, 1940-
• Gray, Charles D., 1928-2000
• McKenna, Virginia, 1931-
• Michell, Keith
• Pasco, Richard
• trueShakespeare, William, 1564-1616
• Spriggs, Elizabeth
• Venza, Jac
• Wise, Herbert
• Ambrose Video Publishing
• British Broadcasting Corporation

Subject

• Television plays
• Videos (DVD)
• Caesar, Julius -- Assassination -- Drama
• Caesar, Julius -- Drama
• Caesar, Julius -- Drama
• Heads of state -- Drama
• Heads of state -- Drama
• Rome -- History -- 53-44 B.C. -- Drama
• Rome -- History -- 53-44 B.C. -- Drama
• Television adaptations

Genre

• Television plays
• Videos (DVD)
• trueDrama
• Television adaptations

Language

eng

Summary

Breaking all conventional rules of drama, Shakespeare creates neither a clear-cut hero nor a villain. Instead, this great tragedy presents complicated human beings in agonizing conflict with one another, and themselves

Member of

• BBC TV Shakespeare (Television program)
• Shakespeare plays (Television program)
• BBC TV Shakespeare (London, England)
• Works

Cataloging source

YVO

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: Not rated

PerformerNote

Richard Pasco (Marcus Brutus), Charles Gray (Julius Caesar), Keith Michell (Marcus Antonius), David Collings (Cassius), Virginia McKenna (Portia), Elizabeth Spriggs (Calphurnia), Sam Dastor (Casca), Jon Laurimore (Flavius), John Sterland (Marullus), Garrick Hagon (Octavius Caesar), Brian Coburn (Messala), Leonard Preston (Titinius), Alexander Davion (Decius Brutus), Darien Angadi (Cinna), Andrew Hilton (Lucilius), Anthony Dawes (Ligarius), Roger Bizley (Metellus), Manning Wilson (Cicero), Ronald Forfar (Soothsayer), Patrick Marley (Artemidorus), William Simons (Trebonius), John Tordoff (Cinna the Poet), Philip York (Young Cato), Christopher Good (Clitus), Robert Oates (Pindarus), Alan Thompson (1st Citizen/1st Plebeian), Leo Dolan (2nd Citizen/2nd Plebeian), Johnnie Wade (3rd Plebeian/1st Soldier), David Henry (4th Plebeian/2nd Soldier), Jonathan Scott-Taylor (Lucius), Tom Kelly (Claudius/Antony's Servant), Jack Elliott (Octavius' Servant/Messenger), Michael Cogan (Caesar's Servant), Reginald Jessup (Poet), Maurice Thorogood (Strato), Michael Greatorex (Varro), Nicholas Gecks (Volumnius), Michael Jenkinson (Dardanius), Roy Spencer (Lepidus), Terence Conoley (Popilius), Noel Johnson (Publius)

Runtime

161

Series statement

The complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare. Tragedy

Technique

live action