![]() ![]() Julius Caesar is a thrilling new English-language premiere production, directed by Prague Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Guy Roberts starring professional PSC actors from Europe, the UK and North America. “The Ides of March” comes to Prague in Shakespeare’s classical play now celebrating its 400th anniversary from the date of its first publication as part of Shakespeare’s First Folio printed in 1623. Shakespeare’s political masterpiece has never felt more contemporary. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets. A small band of the educated elite, devoted to the country’s democratic traditions, decide to bring him down. Liviana Caesar, Julius Caesars younger sister, despises her brother for his fame. Popular with the common people, outspoken, and irreverent, he seems obsessed with his own authority and achieving absolute power. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar) is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 159. UBC’s acquisition of a First Folio ensures public access to one of the world’s most precious cultural treasures.įor All Time will be accompanied by an audio mobile guide featuring the voice of Christopher Gaze, Founding Artistic Director of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, along with a glimpse of UBC’s augmented and virtual reality projects that will come to life this year and in 2023.Julius Caesar, a force unlike any the city has seen, returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Of the estimated 235 copies that remain worldwide, there is only one other copy in Canada. The First Folio is the first complete collected edition of Shakespeares plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death. ![]() The First Folio thus not only gave us their first appearance in print but was also the means by which they were preserved and passed on to future generations.Ĭultural properties of the First Folio’s magnitude and capacity to engage the public’s imagination are not evenly distributed around the world. Eighteen plays-including The Tempest, Macbeth, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale and Julius Caesar-remained unpublished in any form. For the 2007-08 season, the Education Department will publish First Folio Teacher Curriculum Guides for our productions of The Taming of the Shrew, Tamburlaine, Argonautika and Julius Caesar. When Shakespeare died in 1616, only about half of his works had appeared in print. approach is the publication of First Folio Teacher Curriculum Guides. It is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays and the foundation of his enduring legacy and reputation. The First Folio, as it is also recognized, includes thirty-six of Shakespeare’s thirty-eight known plays, edited by his close friends, fellow writers and actors. In partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery, this tangible piece of cultural heritage will be exhibited to the public along with three subsequent seventeenth-century Folio editions of Shakespeare’s plays, marking the first time all four Folios have been displayed in Vancouver. For All Time: The Shakespeare FIRST FOLIO celebrates the University of British Columbia Library’s recent acquisition of a first edition of William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories and Tragedies-an extremely rare book published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare’s death, and credited with preserving almost half of his plays. ![]()
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