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 xii
... seems at first to be hyperbole , but the action indicates that the conspirators are actually " Signed in thy spoil , and crimsoned in thy lethe " ( III.i.207 ) , as Antony tells us . He begins his soliloquy by asking Caesar's pardon ...
... seems at first to be hyperbole , but the action indicates that the conspirators are actually " Signed in thy spoil , and crimsoned in thy lethe " ( III.i.207 ) , as Antony tells us . He begins his soliloquy by asking Caesar's pardon ...
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... seems to be thinking of Tudor coronets ) gladly rabble shouted ( their approval ) ever , every time chapped swooned just a moment ( a vague Elizabethan interjection ) speaks harshly of the rabblement and their " stinking breath " and ...
... seems to be thinking of Tudor coronets ) gladly rabble shouted ( their approval ) ever , every time chapped swooned just a moment ( a vague Elizabethan interjection ) speaks harshly of the rabblement and their " stinking breath " and ...
Page 67
... seems at first to devise a fake errand ( whether Brutus looks well ) but her request about what suitors press near Caesar is clos- er to the mark . She seems , in the bustle and fray she hears , to have a premonition , for Lucius seems ...
... seems at first to devise a fake errand ( whether Brutus looks well ) but her request about what suitors press near Caesar is clos- er to the mark . She seems , in the bustle and fray she hears , to have a premonition , for Lucius seems ...
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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