Julius Caesar (The Annotated Shakespeare)
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Julius Caesar (The Annotated Shakespeare)
Book Details
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Shakespeare
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780300108095
- ISBN-10
- 0300108095
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ISBN: 0300108095
Author: Shakespeare, William
Condition: New
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the worlds greatest dramatistThe 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 Shakespeares Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwrights free-ranging political analysis.This fully annotated version of Julius Caesar makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind. Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with all the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations.
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