Julius Caesar (Collins Classics)HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Power, corruption and betrayal are at the heart of Shakespeare’s most well-known historical and political drama. As Julius Caesar moves closer to securing power for himself and is perceived by some as a threat to Roman citizens, his senators plot to bring about his downfall. Caesar’s assassination leads to civil war rather than peace and the play explores the subsequent deaths of the conspirators Brutus and Cassius. Shakespeare’s contemporaries would have spotted the playwright’s attempts to use the shift from republican to imperial Rome to highlight the political situation of the Elizabethans at the time. Featuring some of the most powerfully resonant and rousing speeches of any of Shakespeare’s plays, Julius Caesar remains one of his most well-loved historical tragedies. |
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... The editors see Shakespeare's plays as living works of art which can be enjoyed today on stage, film and television in many parts of the world. An Elizabethan playhouse. Note the apron stage protruding into the Title Page Prefatory Note.
William Shakespeare. An Elizabethan playhouse. Note the apron stage protruding into the auditorium, the space below it, the inner room at the rear of the stage, the gallery above the inner stage, the canopy over the main stage, and the ...
... Elizabethan theatre were not such as to encourage great writers. The public playhouse itself was not very different from an ordinary innyard; it was open to the weather; among the spectators were often louts, pickpockets and prostitutes ...
... Elizabethan playhouse in reality? What sort of people were these criticized actors? And what sort of audiences gave them their living? The. Development. of. the. Theatre. up. to. Shakespeare's. Time. For centuries in England noblemen had ...
... Elizabethan actors were usually directed at their morals and not at their acting ability; it is clear that many of them must have been good at their trade if they were able to interpret complex works like the great tragedies in such a ...