Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare

Narrator: Richard Dreyfuss, Kelsey Grammer, Full Cast

Unabridged: 2 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/1994

Synopsis

Richard Dreyfuss, Kelsey Grammer and Stacy Keach star in one of Shakespeare's most revered tragedies.

The skies over ancient Rome blaze with terrifying portents, and soothsayers warn Julius Caesar of approaching doom. As conspiracy swirls through the city, Shakespeare explores the deep repercussions of political murder on the human heart. A classic tale of duplicity, betrayal and murder, masterfully performed by an all-star, all-American cast in this BBC co-production.

“...a wonderful addition to any audio theater library.” Audiofile Magazine

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Stacy Keach as Marcus Brutus
John de Lancie as Cassius
Richard Dreyfuss as Marc Antony
Harold Gould as Caesar
Jack Coleman as Casca
JoBeth Williams as Portia
Bonnie Bedelia as Calphurnia
Kelsey Grammer as Murellus
John Randolph as Flavius and Artemidorus
Arye Gross as Octavius
alongside the voices of Paul Winfield, John Vickery, Basil Langton, David Birney, George Murdock, James Morrison, Andrew White, Rudy Hornish, Lee Arenberg,
Jon Matthews, Josh Fardon, Paul Mercier, Arthur Hanket and Marnie Mosiman

Directed by Martin Jenkins. Recorded at KCRW, Los Angeles in November, 1994.

About William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on July 30, 2019

In the course of teaching high school sophomores for thirty years, I have read Julius Caesar more than thirty times, and I never grow tired of its richness of detail or the complexity of its characters. Almost every year, I end up asking myself the same simple question--"Whom do I like better? Cassi......more

Goodreads review by Henry on August 07, 2020

The most powerful, famous man in Roman history, her greatest conqueror, loved by the adoring , poor population, of Rome, ( and Cleopatra, also) that has brought glory and prosperity, too, the army will follow anywhere he leads, certain victory and riches to the soldiers, the Senate has given numerou......more

Goodreads review by Mark on September 04, 2018

'You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!'......more

Goodreads review by Manny on March 26, 2009

I once performed the whole of Mark Anthony's "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" speech on the steps outside the Great Hall in Trinity College, Cambridge, wearing a bedspread as a toga and with a bucket chained over my head. It's a long story. I think I still know the speech by heart.......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on February 12, 2018

"But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man…. " Oh yes! So very, very, honourable was our dear Brutus….. To think these two were once friends.......more

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