Julius Caesar [Paperback]

Julius Caesar: A New Casebook provides students and academics with a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first Globe play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation and political crisis speaks to twenty-first century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.Julius Caesar: A New Casebook provides students and academics with a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first Globe play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation and political crisis speaks to twenty-first century concerns about democracy, the media and mass communication.Acknowledgements.- General Editors' Preface.- Introduction.- The Crisis of the Aristocracy in?Julius Caesar;?W. Rebhorn.- 'Is this a holiday?': Shakespeare's Roman Carnival;?R. Wilson.- 'Fashion it thus':?Julius Caesar?and the Politics of Theatrical Representation;?J. Drakakis.- The Roman Actor:?Julius Caesar;?J. Goldberg.- Collective Violence and Sacrifice in?Julius Caesar;?R. Girard.- 'Thou Bleeding Piece of Earth': The Ritual Ground of?Julius Caesar;?N. Con Liebler.- 'In the spirit of men there is no blood': Blood as Trope of Gender in?Julius Caesar;?G. Kern Paster.- Portia's Wound, Calphurnia's Dream: Reading Character in?Julius Clã7