Julius Caesar : New Critical Essays
This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's other Roman plays as well as structural examination of plot, language, character, and source material. Julius Caesar: Critical Essays also examines the current debates concerning the play in Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, queer, and gender contexts
1 online resource (370 pages).
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Cover
JULIUS CAESAR: NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
General Editor's Introduction
PART I Introduction
INTRODUCTION: Julius Caesar and the Critical Legacy
PART II Central Aspects
CHAPTER 1 History's Alternative Caesars: Julius Caesar and Current Historiography
CHAPTER 2 Caesar On and Off the Renaissance English Stage
CHAPTER 3 Shakespeare's Sources: Translations, Transformations, and Intertextuality in Julius Caesar
CHAPTER 4 From Monarchy to Tyranny: Julius Caesar Among Shakespeare's Roman Works
CHAPTER 5 "Time ... Come Round": Plot Construction in Julius Caesar
CHAPTER 6 "That every like is not the same": The Vicissitudes of Language in Julius Caesar
CHAPTER 7 From Theatre to Globe: The Construction of Character in Julius Caesar
CHAPTER 8 Buying and Selling So(u)les: Marketing Strategies and the Politics of Performance in Julius Caesar
CHAPTER 9 "There is Restitution, no End of Restitution, only not for us": Experimental Tragedy and the Early Modern Subject in Julius Caesar
PART III Current Debates
CHAPTER 10 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Marxist and Post-Marxist Approaches
CHAPTER 11 Constructing Caesar: A Psychoanalytic Reading
CHAPTER 12 "It's an actor, boss. Unarmed": The Rhetoric o f Julius Caesar
CHAPTER 13 Julius Caesar's Analogue Clock and the Accents of History
CHAPTER 14 Major Among the Minors: A Cultural Materialist Reading of Julius Caesar
CHAPTER 15 "Passion of some difference": Friendship and Emulation in Julius Caesar
PART IV Julius Caesar on Stage
CHAPTER 16 Stage Worlds of Julius Caesar: Theatrical Features and Their History
CHAPTER 17 Orson Welles and After: Julius Caesar and Twentieth Century Totalitarianism
CHAPTER 18 Royal Caesar. CHAPTER 19 Multicultural and Regendered Romans: Julius Caesar in North America, 1969-2000
CHAPTER 20 Political Caesar: Julius Caesar on the Italian Stage
Contributors
Index