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...done or said anything amiss, he desired their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts; but there's no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less." Casca in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar...
MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis (through Sept. 17). The company will include Julius Caesar in its repertory, giving Director Edward Payson Call a chance to transform Shakespeare's play into a universal parable of the perils of leadership, as Rome becomes a metaphor for an existing political and climatic hot spot (possibly Latin America). Robert Pastene plays Caesar, Allen Hamilton betrays him, and Charles Keating buries...
NATIONAL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL GROUP, Old Globe Theater, San Diego (through Sept. 14). Macbeth with Richard Easton and Sada Thompson, Julius Caesar with Tom Toner and The Comedy of Errors with Christopher Walken and Laurence Guittard as the Antipholus twins share the summer months...
...Rhine is one of the world's most scenic and storied waterways. It was a commercial route before Christ, and Julius Caesar first spanned it with a bridge in 55 B.C. Along its picturesque banks, flanked by medieval castles, are Drachenfels, the cliff where Siegfried slew his dragon, and the Lorelei rock, where a beautiful siren lured rivermen to their death on the treacherous shoals...
...first Romans to visit Geneva was Julius Caesar, who 2,000 years ago destroyed a bridge there to keep the Helvetians from crossing the Rhone River. Last week another historic Roman personage was in Geneva, not to destroy bridges but to build them. As part of the seventh, briefest, and quite possibly busiest trip abroad of his pontificate, Pope Paul VI paid an unprecedented "fraternal visit" to the headquarters of the World Council of Churches in the city of John Calvin and Rousseau...