Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare: The 30-Minute Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare, Nick Newlin (Editor)

Overview

Julius Caesar: The 30-Minute Shakespeare presents eight spellbinding scenes from this timeless masterpiece. The action begins as the soothsayer warns Caesar of the Ides of March and continues as Brutus conspires against Caesar. Other key scenes include Caesar's riveting assassination and Antony's stirring funeral oration. This adaptation closes with Cinna the Poet's death at the hands of the mob, the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius, and Brutus' suicide.

The edition includes a preface by Nick Newlin containing helpful advice on presenting Shakespeare in a high school setting with novice actors, as well as an appendix with play-specific suggestions and recommendations for further resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935550297
Publisher:	Nicolo Whimsey Press
Publication date:	06/19/2012
Series:	The 30-Minute Shakespeare
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	11 - 18 Years

About the Author

Nick Newlin: Nick Newlin has been a performer, writer and arts educator for



international audiences for 30 years. Since 1996, he has conducted an annual



Play Directing residency affiliated with the



Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.

Nick has a BA from Harvard Universitywith Honors 1982

and an MA in Theater from The Universityof Maryland

with an emphasis on Play Directing. Mr. Newlin now has 20 plays



in The 30-Minute Shakespeare series, plus



The 30-Minute Shakespeare Anthology: 18 Student Scenes with Monologues.





In 2017 Mr. Newlin collaborated with Emmy Award winning The Simpsons writer

Mike Reiss on a new play "Shakespeare's Worst", which had its world premiere at

Bristol Shakespeare Festival in the UK in 2017. Shakespeare's Worst



played in Summer 2018 at Utah Shakespeare Festival. Summer 2019 Shakespeare's Worst

will be produced by Capital Fringe Festival at Washington DC's Arena Stage.





The Nicolo Whimsey Show has performed at The Smithsonian's Discovery Theatre



where they were honored with Legacy Artist award,



The National Theatre in Washington, DC, and the White House

William Shakespeare 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[



Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. . Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men.





His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. Until about 1608, he wrote mainly tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.





Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, Shakespeare's works have been continually adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain popular and are studied, performed, and reinterpreted through various cultural and political contexts around the world.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Table of Contents

Preface: No Experience Necessary vi

Characters in the Play viii

Julius Caesar 1

Performing Shakespeare 40

Performance Notes: Julius Caesar 59

Set and Prop List 70

Sample Program 72

Additional Resources 74

Appendix 77