The Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

The Oxford Shakespeare: Julius Caesar--------------------------------------------------Julius Caesar's exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric and searching characterisationhave made it one of Shakespeare's most popular plays with both readersand theatre-goers. Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition,Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play's date and its placein the Shakespeare canon and examines Shakespeare's transmutation ofhistory into drama. He investigates the play's ethical and moral concernsin a section on Roman values and analyses its fortunes in performance,from its immediately successful first staging to modern productionsfor cinema, television, and stage.