Theatre
Stanislaus Stange adapted the novel into a stage play of the same name which premiered in Chicago at McVicker's Theater's on 13 December 1899.[20] It was later produced the following year on Broadway by F. C. Whitney in a production using music by composer Julian Edwards.[21] The play was also staged at the West End's Adelphi Theatre in 1900.[20]
Jeannette Leonard Gilder also adapted the novel into a stage play of the same name which was also staged on Broadway in the year 1900 at the Herald Square Theatre.[22]
Cinema
Film versions of the novel were produced in
- 1901
- 1910 "Au temps des premiers chrétiens" by André Calmettes
- 1913
- 1924[23]
- 1951 version directed by Mervyn LeRoy was nominated for eight Academy Awards.
Television
The novel was also the basis for a 1985 mini-series starring Klaus Maria Brandauer as Nero and a 2001 Polish mini-series directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
Others
It was satirized as the quintessential school play gone horribly awry in Shivering Shakespeare, a 1930 Little Rascals short by Hal Roach.
Jean Nouguès composed an opera based on the novel to a libretto by Henri Caïn; it was premiered in 1909.[24] Feliks Nowowiejski composed an oratorio based on the novel, performed for the first time in 1907, and then his most popular work.
