The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
- Alternative title
- Julius Caesar
- Synopsis
- Video recording of a stage play, the first to be presented on the stage of the Folger Theatre in Washington, D.C. The players are from the Amherst College Drama Department under the direction of Curtis Canfield. The recording was transmitted live by NBC.
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Television
- Transmission details
- 3 Apr 1949 at 15:30 (Channel: NBC)
- Duration
- 90 mins
Credits
- Director
- Garry Simpson
- Producer
- Owen Davis
- Writer
- William Shakespeare
- Contributor
- Curtis Canfield
- Cast
George Bliss Julius Caesar Raymond McDonnell Mark Antony Arch Taylor Decius Brutus Donald Roberts Caius Cassius James Maxwell Marcus Brutus Peter Klaussen Casca Roger Neuhoff Trebonius
Additional Details
- Theatre
- Elizabethan Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Library
- Theatre company
- Amherst College Dramatic Society (The Masquers)
- Production type
- Stage Recordings
- Historical period
- Elizabethan
- Plays
- Julius Caesar
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Notes
- Notes
- Kenneth Rothwell in Shakespeare on Screen: An International Filmography and Videography (London: Mansell, 1990) notes: the Folger video cassette represents a copy of a blurry Kinescope, of such poor quality that often the picture more resembles a negative than a print’.
- General
- The Folger Shakespeare Library holds a mimeographed typescript
of the shooting script of the NBC broadcast. Includes (after 1st leaf) the 2-leaf "Remarks to audience by Louis B. Wright ... during the Intermission. (not broadcast)".
This is the first performance presented on the Elizabethan stage of the Folger Shakespeare Library. The broadcast profiles the Folger Library and its founder, Henry Clay Folger, president of Standard Oil. - History
- Intermission presentation by Charles W. Cole, President, Amherst College, and Louis B. Wright, Director, Folger Shakespeare Library, on Shakespeare in America, Henry Clay Folger, and the Folger Library.
- Reviews
- Jack Gould ‘Programs in Review’, New York Times 10 April 1949 X9. Gould believed the production ‘amateurish’ and ‘ill-advised’, ill-suited to the Folger stage. Rothwell, becoming nostalgic at an early point in television history, comments in Shakespeare on Screen `... there is a sense of nostalgia for a lost television era. Those were the last days of the lost dream of high culture for the masses’.
Production Company
- Name
NBC
Sponsor
Archive
- Name
Folger Shakespeare Library
- reference@folger.edu
- Web
- http://www.folger.edu External site opens in new window
- Phone
- (202) 544 4600
- Fax
- (202) 544 4623
- Address
- 201 East Capitol Street, SE
Washington
DC 20003
USA
How to cite this record
Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av37297 (Accessed 26 Nov 2024)