Lels Julius Caesar Lmp - Softcover

Shakespeare, William (edited By Wright, Louis And Lamar, Virginia)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340069813 ISBN 13: 9780340069813

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 1974

Synopsis

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 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.

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About the Author

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is not known but is traditionally 23 April, St George's Day. Aged 18, he married a Stratford farmer's daughter, Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. Julius Caesar, one of four plays Shakespeare set in ancient Rome, was probably written in 1599 and also first performed in that year. A member of the leading theatre group in London, the Chamberlain's Men, which built the Globe Theatre and frequently performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare wrote 36 plays and much poetry besides. He died in 1616.

Edition details

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340069813
• ISBN 13: 9780340069813
• Binding: Paperback