Julius Caesar

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Simon and Schuster, 16.08.2011 - 288 Seiten
Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. Shakespeare's play keeps this debate alive.

The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is now available as an eBook. Features include:

· The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference
· Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation
· Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
· Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
· Scene-by-scene plot summaries
· A key to famous lines and phrases
· An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books
· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

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Inhalt

Editors Preface
ix
Shakespeares Julius Caesar
xiii
Julius Caesar
xvi
Shakespeares Life
xxv
Shakespeares Theater
xxxv
The Publication of Shakespeares Plays
xlv
An Introduction to This Text
xlix
Text of the Play with Commentary
1
ACT 3 Scene 2
115
ACT 3 Scene 3
135
ACT 4 Scene 1
141
ACT 4 Scene 2
145
ACT 4 Scene 3
149
ACT 5 Scene 1
179
ACT 5 Scene 2
189
ACT 5 Scene 4
199

ACT 1 Scene 1
7
ACT 1 Scene 2
13
ACT 1 Scene 3
35
ACT 2 Scene 1
49
ACT 2 Scene 2
75
ACT 2 Scene 3
85
ACT 3 Scene 1
93
ACT 5 Scene 5
203
Textual Notes
211
A Modern Perspective
215
Further Reading
225
Key to Famous Lines and Phrases
249
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William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.

Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.

Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.

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