It's an excellent year to study Julius Caesar ... Given it's an election year, and many are power hungry. 
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Quotes about Julius Caesar
It's an excellent year to study Julius Caesar ... Given it's an election year, and many are power hungry.
said Mary Splittorf
The most powerful man in the world, Julius Caesar, lies dead in the Theatre of Pompey, as politicians and military men ambitiously move to fill the void of power. Marcus Antonius summons the physician Antistius to uncover the truth about the assassination through a Greek technique called 'autopsy.' But as Antistius discovers more about the crime, the real truth becomes harder to find.
was said
in Playbill
As the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini, will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities.
was said
in The Scotsman
My character is just wandering down the street one day in New York in the '30s, and he happens upon a theater where Orson Welles picks him out of a crowd to be directed in a production of Julius Caesar.
was said
in ABC News
Very often ‘Julius Caesar’ is done with modern costumes, and there are some productions that have this baroque costuming, which usually means very large dresses and extravagant feathers ... So when I first started talking to Mary Traylor, she was really hot to do period costumes, especially since we were blessed with a cast that could pull it off.
said Mark Streshinsky
Quotes from articles mentioning Julius Caesar
So we’re going with faux nudity in this show. Their idea of modesty was quite different from ours.
was said
It was incredibly hot in everyday life, and it made sense to go with as little as possible
said Mary Traylor
It’s not like I can go to the Early Egyptian section of Macy’s and say, ‘I need a size 10,’
was said
Very often ‘Julius Caesar’ is done with modern costumes, and there are some productions that have this baroque costuming, which usually means very large dresses and extravagant feathers ... So when I first started talking to Mary Traylor, she was really hot to do period costumes, especially since we were blessed with a cast that could pull it off.
said Mark Streshinsky
