Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) - Softcover

William Shakespeare

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671722719 ISBN 13: 9780671722715

Publisher: Washington Square Press, 1992

Synopsis

FOLGER Shakespeare Library: the world’s leading center for Shakespeare studies.

 

Each edition includes:

· 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

· An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play

· Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare

 

About this title

Book 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.

From the Publisher

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.

Edition details

• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671722719
• ISBN 13: 9780671722715
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 239
• Editor: Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Westine