Author:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.
Edition Statement:Third edition.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Descriptionxv, 170 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction / by Jeremy Lopez --Date -- Source -- Caesar in the English Renaissance theatre -- The play -- Personal and political Caesar -- Rituals of power -- Witnessing history -- The text -- Julius Caesar on the stage Note on this edition -- Note on the text-- List of characters -- The play -- Appendix: excerpts from Plutarch -- Reading list.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-170).
Note:"This revised edition preserves the play text as it was edited by Marvin Spevack for the 1988 first edition. Jeremy Lopez's new introduction provides a detailed discussion of Julius Caesar's strange and innovative form by focusing on the interpretive challenges the play has presented to audiences, scholars and theatre companies from Shakespeare's time to our own. The textual commentary has been revised and updated with an eye, and ear, to the contemporary student reader, and the list of further readings has been updated to reflect the latest developments in Shakespearean criticism. Like the first edition, this edition concludes with an appendix containing relevant excerpts from Shakespeare's main source, Plutarch's histories of the lives of Caesar and Brutus as translated by Sir Thomas North in 1579."-- Provided by publisher.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.
