This was a Man
- Synopsis
- Third in a six-part radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra directed by Dickon Reed. With Peter Whitman as narrator, Paul Hardwick as Julius Caesar and Edward Hardwicke as Brutus. Part 3 focuses on the shift of power that takes place at the battle of Philippi while ‘on the other side of the Mediterranean, in Alexandria, the tragic love story of Antony and Cleopatra begins to unfold’ (op.cit).
- Series
- Noble Romans, The
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Radio
- Availability
- Unknown
- Notes
- According to programme notes, Reed used Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Romans to provide introductions for each episode and to link passages between scenes. There has been little textual editing (op. cit.).
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Credits
- Director
- Dickon Reed
- Writer
- Plutarch; William Shakespeare
- Cast
Production Company
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