品牌：William Shakespeare
基本信息
·出版社：Wordsworth Editions Ltd
·页码：144 页码
·出版日：1992年
·ISBN：9781853260223
·条码：9781853260223
·装帧：平装
·英语：英语
·丛书名：Wordsworth Collection
内容简介
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Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers.
Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines Shakespeare's transmutation of history into drama. He investigates the play's ethical and moral concerns in a section on Roman values and analyses its fortunes in performance, from its immediately successful first staging to modern productions for cinema, television, and stage.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
作者简介
Arthur Humphreys is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Leicester.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One of Shakespeare's most political plays,Julius Caesarcontinued Shakespeare's interest in Roman history, first developed inTitus Andronicus. Drawing on Plutarch, the great historian of Rome, Shakespeare dramatises one of the most crucial moments in Roman history--the assassination of Julius Caesar. Loved by the Roman crowd but increasingly feared by the Senators, Caesar increasingly shows signs of his desire to abolish the Republic and crown himself emperor. A conspiracy is hatched, led by Cassius and Brutus, who murder Caesar on the steps of the Capitol. Mourning over his dead friend's body, Mark Antony gives one of the famous rhetorical speeches in literature, asking "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" to lament Caesar's death, privately vowing to "let slip the dogs of war" against those who have shed Caesar's blood. Antony joins forces with Caesar's son Octavius to defeat Cassius and Brutus in battle, and establish an uneasy alliance whose collapse is dramatised in Shakespeare's later playAntony and Cleopatra. Written at the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign,Julius Caesarhas been seen by many as a radically pro-Republican play which sailed close to the political wind of the time. --Jerry Brotton
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