Zander Julius Caesar

New Critical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-135-57808-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 372 Seiten

Reihe: Shakespeare Criticism

This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's other Roman plays as well as structural examination of plot, language, character, and source material. Julius Caesar: Critical Essays also examines the current debates concerning the play in Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, queer, and gender contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zander, Horst

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I: INTRODUCTION
Julius Caesar and the Critical Legacy
Horst Zander
II: CENTRAL ASPECTS
History's Alternative Caesars: Julius Caesar and Current Historiography
Martin Jehne
Caesar On and Off the Renaissance English Stage
Clifford Ronan
Shakespeare's Sources: Translations, Transformations and Intertextuality in Julius Caesar
Vivian Thomas
From Monarchy to Tyranny: Julius Caesar Among Shakespeare's Roman Works
Barbara L. Parker
"Time. Come Round": Plot Construction in Julius Caesar
Joseph Candido
"That every like is not the same": The Vicissitudes of Language in Julius Caesar
Barbara J. Baines
From Theater to Globe: The Construction of Character in Julius Caesar
J. L. Simmons
Buying and Selling So(u)les: Marketing Strategies and the Politics of Performance in Julius Caesar
Naomi Conn Liebler
"There is Restitution, no End of Restitution, only not for us": Experimental Tragedy and the Early Modern Subject in Julius Caesar
Andreas Mahler
III: CURRENT DEBATES
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: Marxist and Post-Marxist Approaches
David Hawkes
Constructing Caesar: A Psychoanalytic Reading
David Willbern
"It's an actor, boss. Unarmed": The Rhetoric of Julius Caesar
Simon Barker
Julius Caesar's Analogue Clock and the Accents of History
Dennis Kezar
Major Among the Minors: A Cultural Materialist Reading of Julius Caesar
Graham Holderness and Marcus Nevitt
"Passion of some difference": Friendship and Emulation in Julius Caesar
Coppélia Kahn
IV: JULIUS CAESAR ON STAGE
Stage Worlds of Julius Caesar: Theatrical Features and Their History
James Rigney
Orson Welles and After: Julius Caesar and Twentieth Century Totalitarianism
Michael Anderegg
Royal Caesar
Tom Matheson
Multi-cultural and Re-gendered Romans: Julius Caesar in North America, 1969-2000
Michael L. Greenwald
Political Caesar: Julius Caesar on the Italian Stage
Mariangela Tempera