“Shakespeare.” By Matt Robinson. Perf. Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Roscoe Lee Brown, Christopher Plummer, and Carl Anthony Payne, II. Dir. Jay Sandrich. The Cosby Show. Season 4, episode 5. NBC. 22 October 1987. DVD. Urban Works, 2007. On a more serious note, The Cosby Show brought us three speeches from Julius Caesar, one of which is delivered by Rosco Lee Brown, who played Polonius in the Campbell Scott Hamlet. Another is delivered by Christopher Plummer—the Christopher Plummer.
As the family members gather after dinner, each of them conveniently facing the audience, we get these three speeches (well, two speeches, really, divided among three main speakers):
- Cassius' "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus" (I.ii.135-50).
- Cassius' speech continued: "Age, thou art sham'd / Rome, thou has lost the breed of noble bloods" (I.ii.150-61).
- Caesar's "Let me have men about me who are fat" (I.ii.192-212)
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If it's a typical sit-com device, I've been watching the wrong channels! It's great to have this glimpse into the abilities of these classy actors. Maybe that was the point: to display the theatrical world beyond the TV sit-com. Enjoyed it!
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