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Spevack emphasizes the complexity of Julius Caesar's seemingly straightforward theatrical experience to focus on the inextricability of private desires and public affairs. The play's stage history supports the work's rich design, and Spevack's commentary is remarkably attentive to questions of production, precise lexical glossing, and the peculiarities of Shakespearean grammar. An extensive appendix, provides lengthy, coherent excerpts from Plutarch's Lives, Shakepeare's main source include images of Caesar from the Renaissance onwards as well as photographs of modern productions and reconstructions of likely Elizbethan stagings of Caesar's entry into Rome, his assassination, Anthony's funeral oration, and the Act 4 meeting between Brutus and Cassius.

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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; the stage history supports and illustrates the rich implications and ambiguities of the play's design.
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; Introduction; Note on the text; Note on the commentary; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix; Reading list.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780521222204
Author:
Shakespeare, William
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Author:
Spevack, Marvin
Author:
Braunmuller, A. R.
Author:
Gibbons, Brian
Location:
Cambridge
Subject:
General
Subject:
Rome History 53-44 B.C. Drama.
Subject:
General Drama
Subject:
Caesar, Julius--Drama
Subject:
Heads of state--Drama
Subject:
Drama-Shakespeare Plays
Edition Number:
1
Edition Description:
Hardback
Series:
The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Publication Date:
19880831
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
15 half-tones
Pages:
199
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"Synopsis" by , 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; the stage history supports and illustrates the rich implications and ambiguities of the play's design.
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