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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812054403321

Titolo

Julius Caesar : new critical essays / / edited by Horst Zander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

81-85618-88-7

1-135-57807-9

1-135-57808-7

1-280-11284-0

0-203-99701-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Shakespeare criticism ; ; v. 29

Altri autori (Persone)

ZanderHorst

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Assassination in literature

Conspiracies in literature

Assassins in literature

Tragedy

Rome In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; JULIUS CAESAR: NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; General Editor's Introduction; PART I Introduction; INTRODUCTION: Julius Caesar and the Critical Legacy; PART II Central Aspects; CHAPTER 1 History's Alternative Caesars: Julius Caesar and Current Historiography; CHAPTER 2 Caesar On and Off the Renaissance English Stage; CHAPTER 3 Shakespeare's Sources: Translations, Transformations, and Intertextuality in Julius Caesar; CHAPTER 4 From Monarchy to Tyranny: Julius Caesar Among Shakespeare's Roman Works

CHAPTER 5 "Time . . . Come Round": Plot Construction in Julius CaesarCHAPTER 6 "That every like is not the same": The Vicissitudes of Language in Julius Caesar; CHAPTER 7 From Theatre to Globe: The Construction of Character in Julius Caesar; CHAPTER 8 Buying and Selling So(u)les: Marketing Strategies and the Politics of Performance in Julius Caesar; CHAPTER 9 "There is Restitution, no End of Restitution,



only not for us": Experimental Tragedy and the Early Modern Subject in Julius Caesar; PART III Current Debates; CHAPTER 10 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Marxist and Post-Marxist Approaches

CHAPTER 11 Constructing Caesar: A Psychoanalytic ReadingCHAPTER 12 "It's an actor, boss. Unarmed": The Rhetoric of Julius Caesar; CHAPTER 13 Julius Caesar's Analogue Clock and the Accents of History; CHAPTER 14 Major Among the Minors: A Cultural Materialist Reading of Julius Caesar; CHAPTER 15 "Passion of some difference": Friendship and Emulation in Julius Caesar; PART IV Julius Caesar on Stage; CHAPTER 16 Stage Worlds of Julius Caesar: Theatrical Features and Their History; CHAPTER 17 Orson Welles and After: Julius Caesar and Twentieth Century Totalitarianism; CHAPTER 18 Royal Caesar

CHAPTER 19 Multicultural and Regendered Romans: Julius Caesar in North America, 1969-2000CHAPTER 20 Political Caesar: Julius Caesar on the Italian Stage; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's other Roman plays as well as structural examination of plot, language, character, and source material. Julius Caesar: Critical Essays also examines the current debates concerning the play in Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, queer, and gender contexts.