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STRATFORD, Conn.--Just about every one of us is vitally affected by politics and the powers attendant upon it. This was true in ancient times and has remained so ever since. To explore the matter for his Elizabethan audiences, Shakespeare drew on Roman history for his Titus Andronicus. Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus...
...Although Julius Caesar is not the greatest of these plays, it is by far the best known, probably because of the enormous fascination Caesar has exerted over the ages. In medieval and Renaissance times Caesar was the only Roman to be honored with a place among the Nine Worthies; in Michael Hart's new book The 100, which is an all-time ranking of the most influential persons in world history, Caesar comes...
This summer the American Shakespeare Theatre is offering Julius Caesar for the fifth time in its history. This time the director, Gerald Freedman, spurred by the work's universal applicability, opted to set the play in our own era, in order, as he said, "to place some mutual perspective on the events of Julius Caesar and on the events...
DIED. Lessing Rosenwald, 88, former chairman of Sears, Roebuck, and collector of rare books, prints and drawings which he donated to the National Gallery of Art and the Library of Congress; in Jenkintown, Pa. Son of Julius Rosenwald, mail-order pioneer who preceded him as Sears chairman, Rosenwald retired from Sears at 48 to devote himself to philanthropy, various political interests and his lifelong passion, collecting...
...labor, Michelangelo was peremptorily summoned to Rome by Pope Julius II to design his tomb and later to paint the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "The place is wrong, and no painter I," grumbled Michelangelo, who considered himself first and foremost a sculptor. Three superb drawings of torsos show the pains he took over the huge scheme, which cost him four years of neck-straining labor...