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Julius Caesar - Shakespeare, William; Raffel, Burton - Yale University Press
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Sep 04, 2006
192 p., 5 x 7 3/4
ISBN: 9780300108095
ISBN-10: 0300108095
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Paper: $6.95
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- The Annotated Shakespeare
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Julius Caesar
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William Shakespeare; Fully Annotated, with an Introduction, by Burton Raffel; With an Essay by Harold Bloom
Received rating of "Outstanding" from 2007 University Press Books Committee
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.
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.
"The volumes in this series will enrich any library that stocks editions of individual Shakespearean plays. [Included are] introductory essays and on-page annotations that aid the reader in vocabulary, usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, alternative readings of phrases and lines, and prosody, i.e. metric structure or accents . . . . Especially helpful are definitions of common words that have changed meanings over the past four hundred years . . . ."—Judith McGowan (American Association of School Librarians) OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR
  
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