Julius Caesar: A Norton Critical Edition

Julius Caesar: A Norton Critical Edition

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<p><strong>Shakespeare’s tragedy of one of the most famous assassinations in the world at an epoch-changing time in history.</strong></p> This richly documented Norton Critical Edition of <em>Julius Caesar</em> is based on the 1623 First Folio text. It is accompanied by a note on the text, an introduction that sets the biographical and historical stage necessary to appreciate this richly allusive play, explanatory annotations, a map, and five illustrations.<br /><br /> “Sources and Contexts” presents possible sources as well as analogues to <em>Julius Caesar</em>, an account of Shakespeare’s understanding of and approach to Roman history, and Ernest Schanzer’s study of the narrative challenges posed by the play.<br /><br /> “Criticism” includes early commentary―by, among others, Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt, and Harley Granville-Barker―on <em>Julius Caesar</em> as well as modern interpretations. Among these are John W. Velz on role-playing in <em>Julius Caesar</em>; Jan H. Blits on Caesar’s ambiguous end; Paul A. Cantor on rhetoric, poetry and the Roman republic; and R. A. Foakes on the themes of assassination and mob violence.<br /><br /> “Performance History” reprints accounts of various aspects of staging <em>Julius Caesar</em> by Sidney Homan, John Nettles, and<br /> Robert F. Willson, Jr.<br /><br /> A Film Bibliography and Selected Bibliography are also included.<br />