Julius Caesar / edited by Marvin Spevack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

Contributor:

Spevack, Marvin.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. 1984. Cambridge University Press Works.

The New Cambridge Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caesar, Julius--Drama.

Caesar, Julius.

Genre:

Drama.

Physical Description:

xv, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Summary:

Spevack emphasizes the complexity of Julius Caesar's seemingly straightforward theatrical experience to focus on the inextricability of private desires and public affairs. The play's stage history supports the work's rich design, and Spevack's commentary is remarkably attentive to questions of production, precise lexical glossing, and the peculiarities of Shakespearean grammar. An extensive appendix, provides lengthy, coherent excerpts from Plutarch's Lives, Shakepeare's main source include images of Caesar from the Renaissance onwards as well as photographs of modern productions and reconstructions of likely Elizbethan stagings of Caesar's entry into Rome, his assassination, Anthony's funeral oration, and the Act 4 meeting between Brutus and Cassius.

Notes:

Bibliography: page 184.

ISBN:

0521222206

0521294088

OCLC:

16833758