num_pages: 199
description: 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.
language: English
title: Julius Caesar
titlecomplete: Julius Caesar (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
characters: Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Marcus Antonius, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Augustus, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Portia Catonis, Brutus, Marcus Junius
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, High School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 198831
places: Philippi, Rome, Italy
publisher: Cambridge University Press