Talk:Caesar (Mercury Theatre)

Stabbing incident
I recently added the unfortunate (but non-lethal) accidental stabbing incident that occurred during a rendition of Julius Caesar. I would greatly appreciate any feedback or modification (I was a bit unsure of where to place the section) or outright deletion of deemed unsuitable. Also, while IAAL (well, will be when bar results are released), tortious defamation is not remotely my specialty, so any feedback on that would be of immense value. In addition, I'd just like to mention that I've read (in far more specious publications) that the stabbing was not an accident, but obviously I could not, in good conscience, include that without a MUCH better source (I've nothing against Welles, I just thought it to be an interesting tidbit/rumor), but Wikipedia is no place for salacious rumors. Finally, it bears repeating that should this stabbing incident be too trivial, then I am by no means opposed to outright removal.Spencerkberry (talk) 18:27, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
 * What you contributed to the article is correct; I added detail and additional citations, and moved the information into the Production section. — WFinch (talk) 00:38, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

Is this an original play?
Just from reading the article I'm having trouble parsing whether this is a play written by Welles based on Shakespeare's original (like the Lion King for Hamlet), or if this is a unique and historically significant production of Shakespeare's play directed by Welles (e.g. Welles's Voodoo Macbeth). 144.121.150.162 (talk) 18:23, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * It's the latter. The play is Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, "adapted and directed by Orson Welles". He cut and reworked the original play. The text of the Mercury adaptation can be found in Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The WPA and Mercury Theatre Playscripts (1990), with a preface and annotations by Richard France. — WFinch (talk) 21:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)