Julius Caesar
1st Edition
Published on 29. April 2017
240 pages
978-1-350-31794-9 (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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-350-31794-9 (9781350317949)
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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.
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.
