Shaw vs. Shakespeare: 1 -- The Character of Caesar

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: George Bernard Shaw, played by Donald Moffatt, analyzes Shakespeare's characterization of Julius Caesar and compares it with his own treatment. In Shaw's words, Caesar "has been praised and damned, lauded as the creator of a great political system, and decried as the destroyer of liberty and human dignity." Shaw claims the character of Caesar was beyond Shakespeare, but admits Shakespeare is still "king of the dramatists." From the EBE Humanities series

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