Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare, Marvin Spevack (Editor), Jeremy Lopez (Introduction)

Overview

This third edition of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, features a new Introduction by Jeremy Lopez.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107088665
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/03/2017
Series:	The New Cambridge Shakespeare
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Jeremy Lopez is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto and the author of Constructing the Canon of Early Modern Drama (Cambridge, 2014) as well as numerous other books and articles on the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He is the general editor of the forthcoming Routledge Anthology of Early Modern Drama.

Date of Death:

2018

Place of Birth:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

Place of Death:

Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom

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Table of Contents

Introduction Jeremy Lopez; Note on the text; Note on the commentary; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: excerpts from Plutarch; Reading list.

Editorial Reviews

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From the Publisher

"John Cox's edition of Julius Caesar is very user-friendly—it has copious and concise explanatory notes, generous selections from Shakespeare's sources, and a critical introduction that does a remarkable job of highlighting the main lines of interpreting the play over the centuries."

Paul A. Cantor