Julius CaesarThe Signet Classics edition of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy of conspiracy and betrayal. In the first of his Roman history plays, the Bard tells the story of the murder of emperor Julius Caesar and the gruesome aftermath as ancient Rome descends into a violent mob. This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes: • An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater • A special introduction to the play by the editors, William and Barbara Rosen • Selections from Plutarch's Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, the source from which Shakespeare derived Julius Caesar • Dramatic criticism from Roy Walker, Maynard Mack, Richard David, and others • A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of Julius Caesar • Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable format • Recommended readings |
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... heart of theatergoers and to the pocketbooks of theater concessionaires ever since. Whether motivated by the need to tend to the candles or by the entrepreneurs' wishing to sell oranges and liquor, or both, the indoor theaters ...
... heart of theatergoers and to the pocketbooks of theater concessionaires ever since. Whether motivated by the need to tend to the candles or by the entrepreneurs' wishing to sell oranges and liquor, or both, the indoor theaters ...
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... heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and ... Heart's Dream, and each of the next two years saw the publication of poems - Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece ...
... heart wrapped in a player's hide supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and ... Heart's Dream, and each of the next two years saw the publication of poems - Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece ...
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... heart that leads directly to his death; or Brutus's insistence that the conspirators need not fear Mark Antony, the play's ultimate hero, as his triumvirate is victorious at the end. Julius Caesar may well have been the first play ...
... heart that leads directly to his death; or Brutus's insistence that the conspirators need not fear Mark Antony, the play's ultimate hero, as his triumvirate is victorious at the end. Julius Caesar may well have been the first play ...
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... heart, and turn him going. (III.3.26-35) Even as it plays upon a dark joke (a poet being ripped apart quite literally by a hostile public), the moment is one of the grimmest in all of Shakespeare; far more cynically than Plutarch, the ...
... heart, and turn him going. (III.3.26-35) Even as it plays upon a dark joke (a poet being ripped apart quite literally by a hostile public), the moment is one of the grimmest in all of Shakespeare; far more cynically than Plutarch, the ...
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... heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me” (III.2.105-7). Rather than minimize Caesar's greatness, as did Cassius when he described him drowning, Antony celebrates it, ending his speech where ...
... heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, / And I must pause till it come back to me” (III.2.105-7). Rather than minimize Caesar's greatness, as did Cassius when he described him drowning, Antony celebrates it, ending his speech where ...
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