Julius+Caesar

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 * ==== Shakespeare's entire play //Julius Caesar:// ====
 * Julius Caesar - the play online (Folger's digital version*)
 * LibriVox/Julius Caesar (full audiobook online)


 * === Relevant Database Subscriptions - rhsa Virtual Library Homepage ===
 * Literary Reference Center
 * See: " Literary Contexts in Plays: William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar".  By: Eastman, Nate, Literary Contexts in Plays: William Shakespeare's 'Julius Ceaser'[sic],"
 * Encyclopaedia Britannica/William Shakespeare
 * === Websites ===
 * InternetShakespeare/UVic.ca - Julius Caesar Performance History
 * "The earliest recorded performance of Julius Caesar is in the “straw-thatched” Globe Theater, as seen by Thomas Platter on September 11, 1599 (Schanzer, “Platter,” 466). The theater had been newly rebuilt (a story well told by Shapiro 1-7), using the timbers of the Theater in Shoreditch, originally constructed in 1576. It was polygonal and open to the sky in the center, like its modern counterpart, built near the original in 1997. The thatched roof covered three vertical tiers of seats, the large thrust stage, the “tiring house” behind the stage, and a small second-story acting area built into the tiring house. The actors wore elaborate costumes, perhaps with some recognition of Roman togas and short swords (rather than fashionable rapiers, as in Hamlet) for Julius Caesar, but they performed without sets on the main stage bare of all except minimal properties—a movable statue of Pompey and a “seat” for Caesar. The “pulpit” specified by the Folio as the place for Brutus’s and Antony’s orations is likely a “literary” stage direction, not a theatrical one, since no other pulpit is indicated in the stage directions for a Tudor or Jacobean play. North’s Plutarch refers twice to the orators using a “pulpit,” and this is probably the origin of Shakespeare’s usage. With enough crowd noise and confusion, both Brutus and Antony could have exited the main stage, ascended to the gallery through the tiring house, and emerged “above” to make their orations. The upper acting area was also probably used later for “that hill” that Pindarus ascends, at Cassius’s command, to survey the progress of battle at Philippi (TLN 2500)."
 * Biography.com/JuliusCaesar
 * PBS: Julius Caesar
 * PBS: Life in Roman Times
 * History.com/JuliusCaesar
 * Shakespeare's Romans: Politics and Ethics in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus
 * Ancient Rome Teacher's wiki
 * Outline maps of Italy and the Roman Empire (you have to label the maps yourself)
 * === Audio-visual ===

1. John Green's **//Crash Course//** - **//The Roman Empire. Or Republic...or Which Was It?//** (12min): *Fast talking, short, detailed overview of Caesar's Rome with lots of corny puns media type="youtube" key="oPf27gAup9U" width="560" height="315"

//**2. Four Sisters in Ancient Rome**// - What life was like for young girls in Rome (9min): media type="custom" key="27351850"
 * Simple - not much detail - upper class only

//**3. A Glimpse of Teenage Life in Ancient Rome**// - for guys (7min): media type="custom" key="27351852"
 * Simple 'day in the life'- upper class only

*Good overview/summary of Caesar's rise to power and death media type="youtube" key="WeLN_zuhvWE" width="560" height="315"
 * //4. When Rome Ruled: Killing Caesar// ** (45min) - National Geographic with 'talking heads' (experts):

//**5. Meet the Romans**// with Mary Beard (Prof. of Classics at Cambridge) 1/3 (59min): *She looks at ancient Roman life by touring through modern Rome and its artifacts media type="youtube" key="rggk_H3jEgw" width="560" height="315"

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 * 6. BBC's** //**Shakespeare Unlocked** -// Key scenes of Julius Caesar performed with director & actors' interpretation **(59min):**
 * Excellent exposure to the craft of acting out Shakespeare in a modern setting

7. A clip (2nd part of 6) from //**Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire**// (well acted with narration) (10 min): media type="youtube" key="li8oV4pq4QE" width="560" height="315"
 * Engaging drama of Rome and Caesar's rise & reign with narration but no "talking heads"

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 * 8. BBC** //Roman Voices// **- looks at the rule of Romans in Britain (28 min):**
 * Interesting look at how the Roman soldiers lived in Britain

@http://www.learn360.com/ShowVideo.aspx?ID=927018 (a user name and password may be required)
 * Shakespeare's Play was based on the historical account of the time written by Plutarch called** //Parallel Lives// (20 min):

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