Julius CaesarPenguin, 01.12.2000 - 304 Seiten The Signet Classics edition of Shakespeare's timeless tragedy of conspiracy and betrayal. In the first of his Roman history plays, the Bard tells the story of the murder of emperor Julius Caesar and the gruesome aftermath as ancient Rome descends into a violent mob. This title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes: • An overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater • A special introduction to the play by the editors, William and Barbara Rosen • Selections from Plutarch's Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans, the source from which Shakespeare derived Julius Caesar • Dramatic criticism from Roy Walker, Maynard Mack, Richard David, and others • A comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of Julius Caesar • Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable format • Recommended readings |
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... Roman emperors attempting to limit circuses had learned, and the Tudor-Stuart audience was not merely large, it was socially diverse and included women. The prevalence of public entertainment in this period has been underestimated. In ...
... Roman emperors attempting to limit circuses had learned, and the Tudor-Stuart audience was not merely large, it was socially diverse and included women. The prevalence of public entertainment in this period has been underestimated. In ...
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... Roman tragedy, which makes better sense of at least one of the throwaway lines in Hamlet: Polonius's reference to having once played Caesar in a university production. If we speculate, as have some scholars, that the same actor assumed ...
... Roman tragedy, which makes better sense of at least one of the throwaway lines in Hamlet: Polonius's reference to having once played Caesar in a university production. If we speculate, as have some scholars, that the same actor assumed ...
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... Roman rebellion at the end of Elizabeth's reign? It made sense, in the context of the Earl of Essex's simmering dissatisfaction with Elizabeth's rule (dissatisfaction that Shakespeare might well have heard of from Henry Wriothesley, the ...
... Roman rebellion at the end of Elizabeth's reign? It made sense, in the context of the Earl of Essex's simmering dissatisfaction with Elizabeth's rule (dissatisfaction that Shakespeare might well have heard of from Henry Wriothesley, the ...
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... Roman play: But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens! The mayor and all his brethren in best sort, Like to the senators of th' antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at ...
... Roman play: But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens! The mayor and all his brethren in best sort, Like to the senators of th' antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at ...
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... Roman history to late Elizabethan English drama and politics, Shakespeare might have been drawn to the idea of inaugurating the Globe with a Roman play out of a desire to unite a specifically theatrical history with public entertainment ...
... Roman history to late Elizabethan English drama and politics, Shakespeare might have been drawn to the idea of inaugurating the Globe with a Roman play out of a desire to unite a specifically theatrical history with public entertainment ...
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