Julius Caesar
By: edited by Arthur Humphreys.
Contributors: Humphreys, A. R. 1911-
Series: Oxford world's classics; The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780199536122
Subjects: Caesar, Julius -- Assassination -- Drama; Brutus, Marcus Junius, -- 85?-42 B.C. -- Drama; Conspiracies -- Drama; Assassins -- Drama; Rome -- History -- Civil War, 43-31 B.C. -- Drama
Genres: Drama
Description: The most famous of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599, and was apparently one the plays his contemporaries enjoyed most. Recounting the death of Caesar on the steps of the Senate house, the play offers some of Shakespeare's finest scenes: Antony's skillful speech at Caesar's funeral, and the quarrel and reconciliation between Brutus and Cassius with the news of Portia's death. This edition includes a fresh consideration of the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines how Shakespeare reshaped his sources (primarily North's translation of Plutarch's Lives). --from publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.