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Julius Caesar

edited by Marvin Spevack

(The new Cambridge Shakespeare)

Cambridge University Press, 2004, c2003

Updated ed

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 208-209

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This third edition of Julius Caesar retains the text prepared by Marvin Spevak for the 1988 first edition and features a completely new introduction by Jeremy Lopez. Discussing in detail the play's strange and innovative form, Lopez explores the interpretive challenges Julius Caesar has presented to audiences, scholars and theatre companies from Shakespeare's time to our own. The textual commentary has been revised and updated with an eye, and ear, to the contemporary student reader, and the list of further readings has been updated to reflect the latest developments in scholarly criticism. The edition concludes with an Appendix containing relevant excerpts from Shakespeare's main source in Plutarch.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Date
  • Sources
  • The play: The frame
  • Structure
  • Theme
  • Persons and politics
  • Julius Caesar on the stage
  • Recent film, stage and critical interpretations by Marga Munkelt
  • Note on the text
  • Note on the Commentary
  • List of characters
  • THE PLAY
  • Textual analysis
  • Appendix: Excerpts from Plutarch
  • Reading list.

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