Julius Caesar: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)

Julius Caesar: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)

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

Synopsis

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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 08 May 2008

ISBN 10: 0199536120
ISBN 13: 9780199536122

Media Reviews
`Professor Humphreys is an excellent Shakespeare critic: he responds sensitively to the play's language and style, and his judgements on the action's finer points are subtle and discriminating...this edition is an impressibley mature piece of work.' Emrys Jones, Literary Review
Author Bio
Arthur Humphreys is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Leicester.