The Marowitz Shakespeare: Caesar, the Tempest, Timon

This new volume contains three more radical adaptations of Shakespeare's plays by the outspoken writer and director Charles Marowitz. 'Caesar' is an intensely private view of what is thought of as a highly public play. 'The Tempest' is a wildly Freudian exploration of a classical terrain which has always been ripe in dream symbolism while 'Timon' offers a panoramic 1920s musical which combines a documentary of recent American history with parallel ingredients from Shakespeare's bitter tragedy. A stimulating introduction examines the ways in which modern directors and adapters re-fertilize the works of Shakespeare.