In his new biography, "When Caesar Was King" (published by Schocken Books), David Margolick explores how 1950s comic Sid Caesar reinvented the art of comedy in the new medium of television. Read an ...

THE IDES OF MARCH (246 pp.)—Thornton Wilder—Harper ($2.75). Suppose that, after the death of Caesar, some industrious private investigator assembled all the relevant documents on the ...

FREEDOM, FAREWELL!—Phyllis Bentley —Macmillan ($2.50). HAIL, CAESAR!—Fletcher Pratt—Smith & Haas ($3.50). With the same workmanlike technique she used in her novels of Yorkshire mill-towns, Phyllis ...

This little work, composed when the former Emperor was in exile on St. Helena, and Englished by retired engineer and British military officer Maguire, offers some interesting criticism of Caesar’s ...

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. xiv, 404. Illus., tables, notes, biblio., indices. $32.99 paper. ISBN: 1107670497 A Handbook to Caesar’s Works Well known largely for his ...

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We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his new biography, "When Caesar Was King" (published by Schocken Books), David Margolick explores how 1950s comic Sid ...