num_pages: 159
description: The Annotated Shakespeare Series allows readers to fully understand and enjoy the rich plays of the world’s greatest dramatistThe first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare’s Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwright’s free-ranging political analysis.This fully annotated version of Julius Caesar  makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. 
language: English
title: Julius Caesar
titlecomplete: Julius Caesar (The Annotated Shakespeare)
characters: Brutus, Marcus Junius, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Augustus, Marcus Antonius, Portia Catonis, Gaius Cassius Longinus
genres: Read For School, Historical Fiction, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 198813
places: Philippi, Rome, Italy
publisher: Yale University Press