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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... speech prefix is set in a separate line when the speaker's lines are in verse, except when those words form the second half of a verse line. Thus the verse form of the speech is kept visually intact. What is printed as verse and what is ...
... speech prefix is set in a separate line when the speaker's lines are in verse, except when those words form the second half of a verse line. Thus the verse form of the speech is kept visually intact. What is printed as verse and what is ...
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... speech in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's balcony soliloquy beginning “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Since the eighteenth century, the standard modern text has read, What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm,
... speech in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's balcony soliloquy beginning “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” Since the eighteenth century, the standard modern text has read, What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm,
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... speech in the play. Instead, we have three quite different texts, all of which are clearly some version of the same speech, but none of which seems to us a final or satisfactory version. The transcendently beautiful passage in modern ...
... speech in the play. Instead, we have three quite different texts, all of which are clearly some version of the same speech, but none of which seems to us a final or satisfactory version. The transcendently beautiful passage in modern ...
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... speeches, the general turns against Rome, laying siege to the city before being slain. Antony and Cleopatra (1606-7) turns to the inauguration of Imperial Rome with the passionate love of Mark Antony for Cleopatra and their ensuing ...
... speeches, the general turns against Rome, laying siege to the city before being slain. Antony and Cleopatra (1606-7) turns to the inauguration of Imperial Rome with the passionate love of Mark Antony for Cleopatra and their ensuing ...
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... speeches in English drama - succeeds precisely because of the way it first seizes on, and then builds upon, one of the most striking props in all of Shakespeare: Caesar's corpse. Unaware of the power of what we would today call “spin ...
... speeches in English drama - succeeds precisely because of the way it first seizes on, and then builds upon, one of the most striking props in all of Shakespeare: Caesar's corpse. Unaware of the power of what we would today call “spin ...
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