Readings on Julius Caesar / Don Nardo, book editor.

Contributor Nardo, Don, 1947-

Imprint:San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c1999.

Description176 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:The story told in Julius Caesar / Marchette Chute. - The heart of the plot: an unnatural conspiracy / Norman Sanders. - Shakespeare's guide to republican Rome: Plutarch's lives / Albert Furtwangler. - Contemporary settings illustrate the play's universality / Richard Fance. - Shakespeare's Brutus: a man torn by conflicting values / J.L. Simmons. - Brutus's personal failure is the central tragedy / Alice Shalvi. - Without a strong Brutus, the play founders / Roger Manvell. - Caesar: mightier in death than in life / Henry Norman Hudson. - Cassius the egotist versus Antony the opportunist / Harley Granville-Barker. - Was Cicero too timid to be a good conspirator? / James A.K. Thomson. - A clash of wills: politics and power in Julius Caesar / E.A.J. Honigmann. - The art and power of oratory in Julius Caesar / Anne Barton. - A clash of aims: the use and abuse of oratory by Brutus and Antony / Derek Traversi. - Distorted self-views: role-playing in Julius Caesar / Thomas F. Van Laan. - Manifestations of the supernatural in Julius Caesar / Cumberland Clark. - Shakespeare's use of blood imagery in the play / Maurice Charney.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-170) and index.

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