Julius Caesar
Published on 7. November 2001
Book
Hardback
XI, 240 pages
978-0-333-75466-5 (ISBN)
Description
Julius Caesar: A New Casebook provides students and academics with a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first "Globe" play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation and political crisis speaks to twenty-first century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.
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Series
Edition
2001
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
XI, 240 p.
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 14 cm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-75466-5 (9780333754665)
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-21330-2
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
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Richard Wilson
Julius Caesar
E-Book
04/2017
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€25.19
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Person
RICHARD WILSON is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Lancaster and Visiting Professor of Shakespeare at The Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III). He is the author of Will Power: Essays in Shakespearean Authority and a study of Julius Caesar and has edited collections on New Historicism and Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlow.
Content
Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction.- The Crisis of the Aristocracy in
Julius Caesar;
W. Rebhorn.- 'Is this a holiday?': Shakespeare's Roman Carnival; R. Wilson.- 'Fashion it thus': Julius Caesar and the Politics of Theatrical Representation; J. Drakakis.- The Roman Actor:
Julius Caesar;
J. Goldberg.- Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Julius Caesar;
R. Girard.- 'Thou Bleeding Piece of Earth': The Ritual Ground of
Julius Caesar;
N. Con Liebler.- 'In the spirit of men there is no blood': Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar; G. Kern Paster.- Portia's Wound, Calphurnia's Dream: Reading Character in Julius Caesar; C. Marshall.- Bardicide;
G. Taylor.- Vicissitudes of the Public Sphere: Julius Caesar; R. Halpern.- Further Reading.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.