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Julius Caesar

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Richard Wilson
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  • Selection of some of the most innovative and influential critics writing on Shakespeare and an overview of a play that has been cited more than almost any other in contemporary literary theory

Part of the book series: New Casebooks (NECA)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard Wilson
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Crisis of the Aristocracy in Julius Caesar

    • Wayne Rebhorn
    Pages 29-54

  4. ‘Is this a holiday?’: Shakespeare’s Roman Carnival

    • Richard Wilson
    Pages 55-76

  5. ‘Fashion it thus’: Julius Caesar and the Politics of Theatrical Representation

    • John Drakakis
    Pages 77-91

  6. The Roman Actor: Julius Caesar

    • Jonathan Goldberg
    Pages 92-107

  7. Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Julius Caesar

    • René Girard
    Pages 108-127

  8. ‘Thou bleeding piece of earth’: The Ritual Ground of Julius Caesar

    • Naomi Conn Liebler
    Pages 128-148

  9. ‘In the spirit of men there is no blood’: Blood as Trope of Gender in Julius Caesar

    • Gail Kern Paster
    Pages 149-169

  10. Portia’s Wound, Calphurnia’s Dream: Reading Character in Julius Caesar

    • Cynthia Marshall
    Pages 170-187

  11. Bardicide

    • Gary Taylor
    Pages 188-209

  12. Vicissitudes of the Public Sphere: Julius Caesar

    • Richard Halpern
    Pages 210-228

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 229-240
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About this book

Julius 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.

About the authors

RICHARD WILSON is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Lancaster and Visiting Professor of Shakespeare at The Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III). He is the author of Will Power: Essays in Shakespearean Authority and a study of Julius Caesar and has edited collections on New Historicism and Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlow.

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