Julius Caesar (review)

Title: Julius Caesar (review)
Creator: Edelstein, Gabriella
Relation: Shakespeare Bulletin Vol. 40, Issue 2, p. 283-287
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/shb.2022.0025
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2022
Description: Australian politics is blighted by a revolving door of Prime Ministers. Due to the quirks of our democracy, in which parliamentary terms are a short three years, and political party members can easily “roll” a leader in the face of another election cycle, Australia has had six Prime Ministers since 2011. Kip Williams’s production of Julius Caesar is well situated in this Australian context, where internecine party politics have been so ruthless that one former Prime Minister, John Howard, likened the leadership spills to the “Night of the Long Knives,” the 1934 Nazi purge of political opponents. But rather than only focusing on the results of (metaphorical) assassinations in Australian political culture, this production was also interested in examining a pervasive cynicism in Western politics at large, particularly the verbal and visual rhetoric that is used to mask or legitimize violence.
Subject: Julius Caesar; Shakespeare; theatre; review
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1500042
Identifier: uon:54839
Identifier: ISSN:0748-2558
Language: eng
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