Word: calpurnia
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...Kyra Strasberg provides a well-executed counterpoint to Suarez's studied coolness in her emotive portrayal of Caesar's spurned wife, Calpurnia. Laszlo Berdo's Caesar remians stoic throughout the first act, which makes Cleopatra's seduction of him all the more impressive...
...driving force behind the conspiracy to kill Caesar, looks properly "lean and hungry." More than in many productions of Shakespeare, thought is given to differentiating the subordinate female characters; Brutus's wife Portia (Crystal Miller) is tiny, delicate-looking, with a voice of steel, while the more ineffectual Calpurnia (Melinda McCrary) has a habit of turning back and forth to the various characters on stage, as if entreating them to listen to her. And when Caesar's ghost walks across the stage to warn Brutus of impending doom--an effect which, like the ghost scene in Hamlet, tends to inspire...
...distaff side, Sharon Laughlin as Brutus's wife Portia is not wholly at case in her lines. Ruby Holbrook, as Caesar's wife Calpurnia, speaks better but hasn't the remotest idea of how to react when her husband decides to go to the Senate after all on the Ides of March...
...Wallace Governor in 1966, they knew they were actually voting for George. Presumably Americans would know their candidates so well that they would not elect a woman whose husband would be the power behind the throne. Of course, there could be no double standard in the White House: axiomatically, Calpurnia's husband must be above reproach...
Mylonas compared the situation of the U. S. to Caesar's wife Calpurnia. "She must not only be honest but she must appear to be honest. Appearances in this case are not honest...