UPDATED: 11/21, 12:53 AM “There are more things under the sun, Horatio …” As of 10:30 PM PST I completed the final edits and revisions of the third part of the New Homeless series for the Las Vegas Sun; the good news is that I am actually glad the series is over … until [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Shakespeare’
Journaliste Violet
Posted: November 21, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Las Vegas Sun, Le Journaliste Colore, Sunday Literary SupplementTags: Darrah Ford, Las Vegas Sun, New Homeless, Rodger Jacobs, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wikipedia, writers, writing
Legends, Heroes, and Myths III: Julius Caesar
Posted: June 20, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Legends Heroes and MythsTags: Julius Caesar, Marlon Brando, Shakespeare
Beware the Ides of March
Posted: March 15, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: Ides of March, Julius Caesar, Orson Welles, Shakespeare
Soothsayer: Caesar! Caesar: Ha! Who calls? Casca: Bid every noise be still! Peace yet again! Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, cry “Caesar!” Speak: Caesar is turned to hear. Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March. Caesar: What man is that? Brutus: [...]
The Dark Heart of a Royal Family
Posted: March 2, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many ShotgunsTags: Ian McKellan, Richard II movie, Richard III, Shakespeare
A Caesar Christmas
Posted: December 27, 2009 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop MattersTags: Deconstruction Zone, Julius Caesar, Mercury Theater, Orson Welles, Popmatters, Shakespeare
Sixty-five minutes of my Christmas Eve was spent listening in rapt fascination to the 1938 Orson Welles production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar for the CBS Radio broadcast network (courtesy of the outstanding Mercury Theater on the Air website, which houses dozens of Welles’s broadcasts). The 1938 production of Caesar, based on the successful Mercury Theater [...]


