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 | | I, Claudius is a novel by Robert Graves, first published in 1934, dealing sympathetically with the life of the Roman emperor Claudius. |
 | | The book was to have been the subject of a 1937 film, produced by Alexander Korda and starring Charles Laughton, but it was dogged by ill-luck, culminating in a serious accident involving the female star, Merle Oberon, which caused filming to be abandoned. |
 | | In 1975, the book, together with its sequel, Claudius the God, was finally adapted by the BBC and proved one of the corporation's most successful drama serials of all time. |
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