SHAKESPEARE

Shakespeare Night Xvii: ‘Julius Caesar’ (1924 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Night

Seventeenth in a series of ‘literary nights’ showcasing Shakespeare’s plays on radio. Performances are by members of the Cardiff Station Repertory Company. Incidental music is played by the Station...

Scenes from Shakespeare [16/02/1923] (1923 Radio)

First BBC radio drama broadcast. There is conflicting evidence on the exact content and cast of this programme. BBC Programme Records only credits a single scene from Julius Caesar as being performed by...

British Empire Shakespeare Society (1923 Radio)

aka: Excerpts from Shakespeare

A ‘Shakespeare Night’ programme transmitted in two parts. Initiated by the British Empire Shakespeare Society, the programme was comprised of play readings. Part 1: 'Trial scene’ and ‘Casket...

Temple Shakespeare Society (1923 Radio)

Radio broadcast of scenes from various Shakespeare plays which, The Times listings suggest, were performed by the Temple Shakespeare Society. The programme was comprised of 2 scenes from Macbeth, scenes from...

Cajus Julius Caesar (1914 Film)

aka: Julius Caesar Caio Guilio Cesare

Director

Enrico Guazzoni

Feature film. The story of Julius Caesar with just occasional borrowings from Shakespeare’s play. Filmed in the traditional Italian spectacular tradition the plot covers a good deal of Caesar’s life and...

Julius Caesar (1911 Film)

Fiction short. A recording of F.R. Benson’s production of Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre with Benson as Mark Antony.

Bruto (1911 Film)

aka: Brutus

Director

Enrico Guazzoni

Fiction short based on Julius Caesar which largely follows the main events of the play from the death of Caesar to the death of Brutus. Guazzoni remade the story for Cines in 1914 for the feature length...

Julius Caesar (1910 Film)

A version of Julius Caesar. The title role is played by Dutch actor Theo Frenkel, Sr.

Giulio Cesare (1909 Film)

aka: Brutus Julius Caesar

Director

Giovanni Pastrone

Producer

Louis Albert

An abbreviated version of the play. Ball finds the picture disappointing, commenting on the poorly handled crowd scenes, unnecessary invented action, and primitive photography and acting.

Julius Caesar: Antony’s Oration (1908 Audio)

Sound recording. A dramatic reading by E.H Sothern of Mark Antony’s funeral oration, Act III ii.