Julius CaesarThese popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process. Shakespeare's shortest play tells the story of Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, who, fearing the possibility of a dictator-led empire, betrays Caesar to protect Rome. Little does he know that Cassius has been holding the strings, manipulating Brutus into exploiting Caesar's weakness and removing him from power with the help of fellow conspirers. Contemplating motives for murder, national allegiance, and divine right, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a unique look at the true events surrounding Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C. |
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Page xi
... Brutus ' four - square , priggish , and overbearing " honesty , " the bloody honorableness that Antony exposes so cuttingly in his oration . Brutus ' inner conflict ends very abruptly in Act II , scene i , and pub- lic determinations ...
... Brutus ' four - square , priggish , and overbearing " honesty , " the bloody honorableness that Antony exposes so cuttingly in his oration . Brutus ' inner conflict ends very abruptly in Act II , scene i , and pub- lic determinations ...
Page 131
... Brutus has heard from or about Portia , and Brutus denies that he has . Why ? His denial forces Messala ( I. 186 ) to be the bearer of the bad news . Brutus then must pretend not to have heard it before , and this pretence then calls ...
... Brutus has heard from or about Portia , and Brutus denies that he has . Why ? His denial forces Messala ( I. 186 ) to be the bearer of the bad news . Brutus then must pretend not to have heard it before , and this pretence then calls ...
Page 158
... Brutus , and be honored in his death . [ FIRST ] SOLDIER We must not ; a noble prisoner . Enter ANTONY . SECOND SOLDIER Room , ho ! Tell Antony Brutus is ta'en . FIRST SOLDIER I'll tell the news . Here comes the general . Brutus is ta'en , ...
... Brutus , and be honored in his death . [ FIRST ] SOLDIER We must not ; a noble prisoner . Enter ANTONY . SECOND SOLDIER Room , ho ! Tell Antony Brutus is ta'en . FIRST SOLDIER I'll tell the news . Here comes the general . Brutus is ta'en , ...
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actors Alarum answer Antony's Artemidorus asks audience battle bear beginning blood Brutus and Cassius Brutus's Caesar's body Caius Ligarius Calphurnia Capitol Casca Cato Cicero CINNA Claudio CLITUS COBBLER comes conspiracy conspirators crowd crown DARDANIUS dead death Decius director doth Elizabethan enemy Enter BRUTUS Exeunt Exit fear FLAVIUS follow FOURTH PLEBEIAN ghost gods grief hand hath hear heart honor ides of March Julius Caesar kill leave Lepidus Ligarius look lord Lucilius Lucius Marcus Marcus Brutus Mark Antony means MESSALA Metellus Cimber move MURELLUS night noble Brutus Octavius oration Philippi Pindarus Plutarch Pompey Portia production Publius Roman Rome scene SECOND PLEBEIAN seems senators SERVANT Shakespeare shout sick soldier soliloquy SOOTHSAYER speak speech spirit Stage Directions stand Strato sword tell tent theatre theatrical thee things THIRD PLEBEIAN Titinius traitors Trebonius VARRUS Volumnius wife words wrong