Julius Caesar
By: edited by Marvin Spevack.
Contributors: Spevack, Marvin.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: The new Cambridge Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Caesar, Julius -- Assassination -- Drama; Conspiracies -- Drama; Assassins -- Drama; Rome -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: "Professor Spevack's critical discussion shows how private desires and public affairs are inextricable in Julius Caesar and how Shakespeare frames the world of this play - person, action, place, time - within the operations of larger forces, mysterious, ironical and undeniable. The result is the full impact of tragedy. The commentary is remarkable for its attention to questions of staging and to precise lexical glossing. For this updated edition, Marga Munkelt has added a new section and new pictures to the Introduction, suveying stage and critical interpretations since the 1980s of Shakespeare's most famous Roman play. The reading list has also been brought up to date."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-209).