Julius Caesar (Oxford Shakespeare)

by Arthur Humphreys (Editor), Arthur Humphreys (Editor), William Shakespeare (Author), William Shakespeare (Author)

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  Paperback
  1984

  $3.37

  Julius Caesar 's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers. Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines Shakespeare's transmutation of history into drama. He investigates the play's ethical and moral concerns in a section on Roman values and analyses its fortunes in performance, from its immediately successful first staging to modern productions for cinema, television, and stage. This book is intended for students from A-level up to postgraduate of English literature, Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, drama and politics; playgoers, actors, directors.