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Julius Caesar (play) by Robert Kaplow, is a fictional story centred around Orson Welles' famous 1937 production of "Julius Caesar" at the Mercury Theatre. British actor Christian McKay is cast as Welles, and co-stars with Zac Efron and Claire Danes. The 2012 Italian drama film "Caesar Must Die" (), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, follows convicts in their rehearsals ahead of a prison performance of "Julius Caesar". In the Ray Bradbury book "Fahrenheit 451", some of the character Beatty's last words are "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am armed so strong in honesty that they pass me