William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is remarkable for its structural clarity and is frequently used to introduce students to Shakespearean tragedy. Bloom calls it a very satisfying play universally regarded as a work of considerable aesthetic dignity.
The title, William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on William Shakespeare, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
