Word: ceasar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diction of the huge company assembled in Robert Chapman's production of Ceasar and Cleopatra is the finest I have ever heard in the vault of the Loeb mainstage auditorium. Every word and phrase spoken is clear, and the balance of voices is carefully, even scrupulously, maintained. A technical point of this sort may seem a strange point of departure for more general praise of this staging of Shaw's ideological spectacular, particularly since such matters as diction are always more notable for their lack than their presence. But the virtue of this Caesar and Cleopatra lies in the words...
With all the talent available to it, with all the money so obviously lavished upon it, the Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival should have given us a far better Julius Ceasar than the one that opened at the Loeb last night...