The Tragedie of Julius CaesarThe First Folio of 1623 was prepared for print by two members of Shakespeare's acting troupe -- John Hemings and Henry Condell -- which included comic actor Will Kemp and the great tragedian Richard Burbage. In a fascinating and detailed introduction, Freeman points out that because Shakespeare and his colleagues wrote from a rhetorical tradition -- a society where the emphasis was on the spoken word -- he wrote with an eye to how he wanted his plays performed, giving as much direction as possible to his actors. Freeman looks at what is known of the printing of that First Folio and analyzes the variations between the First Folio, later Folios, Quarto editions (where available) and modern editions of the plays. He examines the "corrections" made by editors over the centuries that have shaped the way we perceive Shakespeare today -- from the regularization of verse, to the changes from prose to verse (and vice versa) and the standardization of character prefixes. |
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Page vii
... Plutarch, ed. 1595, on which are based the incidents of the tragedy; throughout the Commentary references are, however, made to the passages in Skeat's volume, Shakespeare's Plutarch — this for two reasons, first, Skeat's text is that ...
... Plutarch, ed. 1595, on which are based the incidents of the tragedy; throughout the Commentary references are, however, made to the passages in Skeat's volume, Shakespeare's Plutarch — this for two reasons, first, Skeat's text is that ...
Page viii
... Plutarch. Taken together, Cicero's Letters and the Philippics give almost a daily record of those troublous times preceding and following the assassination of Caesar. For example, in Plutarch's Life of Casar it is said that Decius ...
... Plutarch. Taken together, Cicero's Letters and the Philippics give almost a daily record of those troublous times preceding and following the assassination of Caesar. For example, in Plutarch's Life of Casar it is said that Decius ...
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... Plutarch's Life of Ccesar, and was composed probably in 1604 or 1606, though not published until 1607. It has been lately shown that, in large part, Alexander's work is a translation of a tragedy by Jules Grevin, which, in turn, is ...
... Plutarch's Life of Ccesar, and was composed probably in 1604 or 1606, though not published until 1607. It has been lately shown that, in large part, Alexander's work is a translation of a tragedy by Jules Grevin, which, in turn, is ...
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... Plutarch {Life of Brutus, § 22): Cassius would have done Brutus much honour, as Brutus did unto him, but Brutus most commonly prevented him, and went first unto him, both because he was the elder man as also for that he was sickly of ...
... Plutarch {Life of Brutus, § 22): Cassius would have done Brutus much honour, as Brutus did unto him, but Brutus most commonly prevented him, and went first unto him, both because he was the elder man as also for that he was sickly of ...
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... Plutarch relates that on the day on which Caesar was assassinated Portia was overcome with terror, and even swooned away, but did not in her emotion utter a word which could affect the conspirators. Shakespeare has rendered this ...
... Plutarch relates that on the day on which Caesar was assassinated Portia was overcome with terror, and even swooned away, but did not in her emotion utter a word which could affect the conspirators. Shakespeare has rendered this ...
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