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 xxi
... play would be set and costumed . Since at least the 1920s , however , directors have been transplanting classics , and especially Shakespeare's plays , from their ostensible period to other times , political climates , and modes of ...
... play would be set and costumed . Since at least the 1920s , however , directors have been transplanting classics , and especially Shakespeare's plays , from their ostensible period to other times , political climates , and modes of ...
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... play moves out of Rome . The action seems to require open spaces . Brutus ' tent ( IV.ii ) will sure- ly be a portable affair , brought on by soldiers , to be set up at the beginning of the scene and taken away as they leave the tent to ...
... play moves out of Rome . The action seems to require open spaces . Brutus ' tent ( IV.ii ) will sure- ly be a portable affair , brought on by soldiers , to be set up at the beginning of the scene and taken away as they leave the tent to ...
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... play , and the two women in it are there to shed light on their husbands , who occupy the center of our author's attention . One senses in Portia a woman as much her husband's equal as Shakespeare's time ( the time of Queen Elizabeth ) ...
... play , and the two women in it are there to shed light on their husbands , who occupy the center of our author's attention . One senses in Portia a woman as much her husband's equal as Shakespeare's time ( the time of Queen Elizabeth ) ...
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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