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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... matter, Caesar is unique among Shakespeare's plays. Never before has he relied so heavily on one source - in this case, Thomas North's 1579 translation of Jacques Amyot's 1559 French version of a Latin translation of Plutarch's Lives of ...
... matter, Caesar is unique among Shakespeare's plays. Never before has he relied so heavily on one source - in this case, Thomas North's 1579 translation of Jacques Amyot's 1559 French version of a Latin translation of Plutarch's Lives of ...
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... matter, his name's Cinna. Pluck but his name out of his 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 ...
... matter, his name's Cinna. Pluck but his name out of his 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 ...
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... matter to illuminate / So vile a thing as Caesar!” (I.3.107-10). Cassius is a classic malcontent, a figure frequently seen on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Typically young men whose ambitions have been thwarted, malcontents plot ...
... matter to illuminate / So vile a thing as Caesar!” (I.3.107-10). Cassius is a classic malcontent, a figure frequently seen on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage. Typically young men whose ambitions have been thwarted, malcontents plot ...
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... matters, nor women's matters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger I recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork. FLAVIUS But wherefore art not ...
... matters, nor women's matters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger I recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork. FLAVIUS But wherefore art not ...
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... matters (with pun on “genitals”) 23 withal nevertheless (with puns on all and awl ) 24 recover re-sole (with pun on “cure”); proper fine 25 neat's cattle's; gone walked 31 triumph victory procession 33 tributaries ransom-paying captives ...
... matters (with pun on “genitals”) 23 withal nevertheless (with puns on all and awl ) 24 recover re-sole (with pun on “cure”); proper fine 25 neat's cattle's; gone walked 31 triumph victory procession 33 tributaries ransom-paying captives ...
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