Julius Caesar (The Annotated Shakespeare) [Paperback]

William Shakespeare (Author), Professor Burton Raffel (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0300108095 | ISBN-13: 978-0300108095 | Publication Date: September 27, 2006 | Edition: annotated edition

The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare’s Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwright’s free-ranging political analysis.

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About the Author

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent of many edited and translated publications is Das Nibelungenlied, published by Yale University Press. He lives in Lafayette. Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press; annotated edition edition (September 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300108095
• ISBN-13: 978-0300108095
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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