CliffsComplete Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Cliffs Notes)

by Diana Sweeney (Editor), Diana Sweeney (Editor), William Shakespeare (Author), Sidney Lamb (Editor), William Shakespeare (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.43

  In the CliffsComplete guides, the novel's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You'll also find all the commentary and resources of a standard CliffsNotes for Literature.CliffsComplete Julius Caesar offers insight and information into a work that's rich both dramatically and thematically. Every generation since Shakespeare's time has been able to identify with some political aspect of the play.Discover what happens to Rome's highly ambitious leader and to those who conspire to remove him from the ranks and save valuable studying time all at once. Enhance your reading of Julius Caesar with these additional features:

  • A summary and insightful commentary for each chapter
  • Bibliography and historical background on the author, William Shakespeare
  • A look at Early Modern England intellectual, religious, political, and social context
  • Coverage of Shakespeare's source and the play's performance history
  • A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
  • Review questions, a quiz, discussion guide, and activity ideas
  • A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Web sites

  Streamline your literature study with all-in-one help from CliffsComplete guides!

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.43

  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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $4.62

  This respected edition of Shakespeare's play contains the full text, extensive notes and supplementary material written for school use.

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $7.47

  Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Julius Caesar is among the best of Shakespeare's historical and political plays. Dealing with events surrounding the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., the drama vividly illustrates the ways in which power and corruption are linked. The cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!' is used to exculpate brutal realities, while personal ambitions taint public actions. Rich in characterisation and replete with eloquent rhetoric, Julius Caesar remains engrossing and topical: a play for today.