Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous
more collaborative
more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note
each gloss
each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare
they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process.Shakespeare's shortest play tells the story of Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus
who
fearing the possibility of a dictator-led empire
betrays Caesar to protect Rome. Little does he know that Cassius has been holding the strings
manipulating Brutus into exploiting Caesar's weakness and removing him from power with the help of fellow conspirers. Contemplating motives for murder
national allegiance
and divine right
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a unique look at the true events surrounding Caesar's assassination in 44 B.C.