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The Week in Review: The Play Julius Caesar

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990529
Author:Fiona Sturges

Director Mark Rylance celebrates the 400th anniversary of the Globe with a revival of Julius Caesar, the play which was performed in the theatre's first season in 1599. With Paul Shelley and Mark Lewis Jones.

"The inn-yard intimacy of the Globe has, in the past, encouraged an atmosphere of ugly partisanship. Ironically, there was precious little sense of mob danger at the first night," lamented Paul Taylor, concluding: "This is a decent rather than an exciting Julius Caesar." "The most satisfying production at the Globe to date," beamed The Daily Telegraph. "At its best, Rylance's production ...

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