Julius Caesar
By: William Shakespeare ; edited by David Daniell
Contributors: Daniell, David
Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Third series
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 393
Subjects: Drama; History
Description: Shakespeare's dramatization of the assassination of Julius Caesar sees rhetoric give way to cruelty, revenge and war. The tragedy is a complex treatment of the conspiracy, prompting discussions about power, tyranny, rivalry, gender, religion, the Elizabethan understanding of the Roman world and the continued interpretation of character: is Caesar a hero or a tyrant? Is Brutus a patriot or a murderer? There are no extant quartos of 'Julius Caesar'; this text comes out of the Folio of 1623.
Notes: Originally published: Walton-on-Thames: Nelson, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.