Shakespeare - Julius Caesar (BBC, 1969) - Cassius (Woodward) and Brutus (Finlay) argument

Edward Woodward and Frank Finlay put on an actor's master class, presenting clear dynamic contrast between Cassius' passion—upsetting his self-identification as philosophically Epicurean (imperturbable) (1)—and Brutus' Stoical sang-froid (2). Shakespeare details novel psychological nuance, working from Plutarch's ancient biographies, without detaching the characters from, or losing the power of, root dramatic archetypes. Shakespeare gives us an absolute continuum from the mythic to the ironic.

(1) Act V. scene i. line ≈75, though in this context, imperturbable; compare to Casca, Act I. scene iii.
(2) video 8:41-51, Act IV. scene iii. lines ≈145; also reference to Cato the Younger, the Stoic martyr, V.i. ≈100