Julius CaesarIn 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. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... Pompey the Great, inacivil war. The play will endwith renewed civil war. Elizabethan political culture was much exercised by the dangersof,onthe onehand, the civil strife concomitant upon uncertainty over the transmission of powerand ...
... Pompey the Great, inacivil war. The play will endwith renewed civil war. Elizabethan political culture was much exercised by the dangersof,onthe onehand, the civil strife concomitant upon uncertainty over the transmission of powerand ...
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... Pompey?36 Manya timeandoft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows? Yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants inyourarms, and there have sat The livelong40day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the ...
... Pompey?36 Manya timeandoft Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows? Yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants inyourarms, and there have sat The livelong40day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the ...
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... Pompey's blood?50 Be gone! Run toyour houses, fall uponyour knees, Pray tothe godsto intermit53the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude. FLAVIUS Go,go, good countrymen, and for this fault Assemble all thepoor menof your sort ...
... Pompey's blood?50 Be gone! Run toyour houses, fall uponyour knees, Pray tothe godsto intermit53the plague That needs must light on this ingratitude. FLAVIUS Go,go, good countrymen, and for this fault Assemble all thepoor menof your sort ...
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Contents
The TragedyofJulius Caesar The List of Parts | |
Scene 5 | |
Farr and Lucy Bailey Shakespeares Careerin the Theater | |
A Chronology | |
Acknowledgments and Picture Credits | |
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Act 5 Scene actors Alarum andthe Antony’s ARTEMIDORUS assassination atthe audience battle bear blood Brutus and Cassius Caesar’s body Caius Calpurnia Capitol Casca Cassius Cato Cicero Cimber Cinna CLITUS conspirators crowd crown dangerous death Decius doth Elizabethan Exeunt Act Exit Farr fear Flavius Folio FOURTH PLEBEIAN fromthe Ghost give gods hand hath hear heart honourable inhis inthe Jonathan Bate Julius Caesar kill king Lepidus Ligarius look lord Lucilius Lucius Mark Antony Messala Metellus mighty modern Murellus noble Octavius ofthe omens performance Philippi Pindarus play Poet political Pompey Pompey’s Portia production Roman Rome Royal Shakespeare Company running scene SECOND PLEBEIAN senate SERVANT Shakespeare SOLDIER SOOTHSAYER speak speech spirit stage stand Stratford-upon-Avon Strato sword tell thatthe theater theaudience thee theplay there’s THIRD PLEBEIAN thou Titinius tobe tothe Tragedy Trebonius Varrus Volumnius Winter’s Winter’s Tale withthe words