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...company for whom Robert Fletcher designed costumes in the AST's first season was a little-known young Canadian actor who played Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest. His name was Christopher Plummer. The next year he portrayed Henry V both in Canada and Scotland--a stint that catapulted him to stardom, and a performance I have always regretted missing. For the past two decades Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of Plummer has merited inclusion on any list of the dozen finest actors in the English-speaking world. Like Guinness and (for a time) Brando...
...Frank Sinatra might have crooned last week after asking the Nevada Gaming Control Board for a gaming license so that he can become a consultant to Caesar's Palace. He once had an operator's license but lost it in 1963 because of his reputed association with Chicago Mafia Don Sam ("Momo") Giancana...
...startling thing about the Lang affair is that he was not purveying pornography, or even mildly racy novels. He was merely introducing his students to the Poetics by Aristotle and The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli as an aid to their study of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Lang, 55, a ten-year teaching veteran, is a man determined to challenge his students, pitted against a school system that wants him to take things easy...
...Tenth-graders can handle Aristotle," insists Robert Squires, president-elect of the National Council of Teachers of English. Indeed, whether or not Aristotle is mentioned by name, most high school discussions of Julius Caesar, Othello and other tragedies build on the characteristics of tragedy originally set out in a few pages of the Poetics. Such fundamental questions as "Is Brutus or Caesar the hero of the play?" and "Why would an honorable man like Brutus join in the conspiracy against Caesar?" are good Aristote lian questions. Nor is Machiavelli unfathomable in an age well versed in political manipulation. Merely asking...
...down, the heat of the debate lingers. Correspondence and controversy continue, and the letters-diverse as they may be-all share a particular passion, not only for points of conscience and politics but for theater. They are like one of Brenton's Romans, who starts to address Julius Caesar, "I speak from the heart . . ." "A disgusting, fashionable habit," Caesar reminds him, an aside bound to cut any passionate British theatergoer right to the quick...