Julius CaesarJulius 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. |
Contents
The Crisis of the Aristocracy in Julius Caesar | |
Shakespeares Roman Carnival | |
Julius Caesar and the Politics of Theatrical | |
Julius Caesar | |
Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Julius Caesar | |
The Ritual Ground of Julius | |
Blood as Trope | |
Julius Caesar | |
Bardicide | |
Julius Caesar | |
Further Reading | |
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