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Introduction
Table of Dates
Text: Julius Caesar
Contexts
Sources
Thomas North, from Plutarch’s Lives of the Greeks and Romans (1579)
The Supernatural: Divine Signs, Ghosts, and Prophetic Dreams
I. Signs from heaven: divining the future in Caesar’s Rome and Shakespeare’s England
Thomas North, fromPlutarch’s The Life of Julius Caesar
Ludwig Lavater,from Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night (1572)
Abraham Fleming, from A straunge and terrible wunder wrought very late in the parish church of Bongay (1577)
from theGeneva Bible (1560)
Martin Luther,
from A very comfortable and necessary sermon…concerning the comming of our Savior Christ to Judgment and the signs that go before the Last Day (1570)
William Fulke,from Antiprognosticon (1560)
II. Ghosts
Thomas North, from Plutarch’s Life of Marcus Brutus
Ludwig Lavater,from Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night (1572)
III. Dreams
Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), from the Aeneid
Thomas Hill, from The Moste pleasaunte Arte of the Interpretacioun of Dreams (1567)
Republicanism, Popular Politics, and the Rhetoric of Liberty In 1599
I. Freedom and English Identity
William Harrison, from The Description of England (1587)
James Morice, from a speech in the House of Commons, February 27, 1593
Sir Christopher Yelverton, from a speech to Elizabeth I at the closing of Parliament, February 9, 1598
II. Parliament and Liberty
John Hooker (alias Vowell), from The order and usage of the Keeping of a Parliament in England (1571)
Sir Thomas Smith, from De Republicum Anglorum (1583)
III. Republican Rome and the Elizabethan Political Imagination
John Hooker (alias Vowell), from The order and usage of the Keeping of a Parliament in England (1571)
IV. Roman Tyranny in Elizabethan Context
Sir William Fitzwilliam, from his parliamentary diary (1584-85)
Richard Martin, from a speech in the House of Commons, November 20, 1601
Sir Thomas Hetley (Hedley), from a speech in the House of Commons, June 8, 1610
Performance History
I. Shakespeare in Hollywood, Part I: The Hollywood Carnival Association Production of 1916
Advertisements, Articles, and Reviews from The Los Angeles Times
II. Julius Caesar and the Political Crisis of the Twentieth Century: Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater Production of 1937
Articles and Reviews from The Washington Post and the Chicago Daily Tribune
III. Shakespeare in Hollywood, Part II: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Julius Caesar (1953)
Articles and Reviews from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Daily Tribune
RECEPTION
Thomas Rymer, from A Short View of Tragedy (1693)
Joseph Addison, from the Tatler (1709)
Nicholas Rowe, from Some Account of the Life, etc, of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709)
Lewis Theobald, from The Censor (1717)
Voltaire, from Discours sur la tragédie, à milord Bolingbroke (1731)
Elizabeth Montagu, from An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769)
Edward Capell, from Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare (1779)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Lectures and notes on Shakespeare and other English poets (1811)
William Hazlitt,from Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817)
George Bernard Shaw, from a review in The Saturday Review, January 29, 1898.
August Strindberg, from Open Letters to the Intimate Theater (1909)
Yves Bonnefoy, from Shakespeare and the French Poet (2004)
FURTHER READING
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YUTAKA NAGASAKI
reviewed Julius Caesar, A Longman Cultural Edition on May 12, 2007 Julius Caesar, A Longman Cultural Edition
In the course of teaching high school sophomores for thirty years, I have read Julius Caesar more than thirty times, and I never grow tired of its richness of detail or the complexity of its characters. Almost every year, I end up asking myself the same simple question--"Whom do I like better? Cassius or Brutus?"--and almost every year my answer is different from what it was the year before.
On one hand, we have Cassius, the selfish, manipulative conspirator who, after the assassination, shows himself to be an impulsive, loyal friend and an able politician, and, on the other hand, Brutus, the conscientious intellectual and lover of the republic who becomes, under the weight of his guilt, an irritatingly scrupulous moralist and an inept general more concerned with reputation than success. And then of course there is Antony: brilliant, vicious, unscrupulous, and ultimately as unknowable as a tornado.
This is a great play about politics and human character.
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