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...Caligula (adapted from the French of Albert Camus by Justin O'Brien) scrutinizes one of the most nefarious rulers of history, whose one excuse for being a monster is that he was almost surely a madman. Camus wrote Caligula in 1938, an ominous time of madmen and monsters, but even then Caligula was not in any usual sense tendentious. No self-made, power-mad Brown-shirted or Black-shirted or Red dictator, Caligula was bred to the purple; endowed with unlimited power, what he came to thirst after was unlimited "freedom." Camus' Caligula, whose once very human blood...
With cynically inverted logic and with suppurated sensibility, Caligula degrades, tortures, rapes, murders those about...
...alternates appalling melodrama with grisly farce, is now a kind of rancidly self-communing Hamlet, now Venus in a gold wig. The more inhumanly homicidal his acts become, the more inherently suicidal is his mood. Boundless egotism shatters into nihilism, limitless freedom festers into self-imprisonment, until Caligula's assassination at the hands of conspirators is really a welcomed assignation with death...
...Caligula, an early work (1944) by the late novelist-playwright Albert Camus, is a study of the fourth and weirdest of the twelve Caesars, which seeks to show that there was a kind of existentialist method in the young emperor's madness -a rebellion against the cruel limitations of the human condition. Star: Kenneth (Look Back in Anger) Haigh, with Colleen Dewhurst. The New Haven Register's Robert J. Leeney called it "brilliant, baffling, raw and rich." (Broadway opening...
...told that the mad Emperor Caligula once appointed a horse to administer an imperial province. The people of Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo (population over 3,000,000) have easily matched Caligula's choice of public servant; they have elected a female rhinoceros as mayor...