Julius Caesar A Critical Reader [Hardcover]

This volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to this Roman tragedy, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's performance, beginning with its earliest known staging in 1599, including an analysis of the 2013 filmCaesar Must Diestarring Italian inmates, and an assessment of why the play is now coming back into vogue on stage. Moving through to four new critical essays, it opens up cutting-edge perspectives on the work, and finishes with a guide to pedagogical approaches by the experienced teacher and leading academic Jeremy Lopez.

Detailing web-based and production-related resources, and including an annotated bibliography of critical works, the guide will equip teachers and facilitate students' understanding of this challenging play.

SSeries Introduction (Series Editors Andrew Hiscock & Lisa Hopkins)
Julius CaesarTimeline (Andrew James Hartley, UNC Charlotte, USA)

Introduction (Andrew James Hartley, UNC Charlotte, USA)

The Critical Backstory (Daniel Cadman, Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

Performance History (Andrew James Hartley, UNC Charlotte, USA)

The State of the Art (Domenico Lovascio, University of Genoa, Italy)

New Directions
Julius Caesar,Ovidian Transformation and the Martyred Body on the Early Modern Stage (Lisa S. Starks-Estes,University of South Florida St. Petersburg, UK)

Nietzsche'sCaesar: Striking Our Debt to Moral Tragedy (Todd Landon Barnes, Ramapo College, USA)

The Ambivalence ofJulius Caesar(John Curran, Marquette University, USA)

The Death of the Roman Republic:Julius Caesarand Cicero (Warren Chernaik, King's College, London, UK)