Julius Caesar: Third Series

William Shakespeare

Bloomsbury Academic, Jun 25, 1998 - Drama - 394 pages

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings--"Beware the ides of March"--and of moving public oratory "Friends, Romans, countrymen!" Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.

About the author

David Daniell is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of London and Honorary Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. For 25 years he taught Shakespeare and much else at University College London. He has been Visiting Professor at King's College London, and Visiting Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. He has taught at Dartmouth College, and lectured widely in Europe, the US, and the UK. His publications include books on Coriolanus and The Tempest, and many articles on Shakespeare. He has written extensively on the English Bible, particularly its first translator, William Tyndale.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Julius Caesar: Third Series; Arden Shakespeare; Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare; Arden edition of the works; The critical edition of Shakespeare; Works. 1995
• Author: William Shakespeare
• Editor: David Daniell
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 1998
• ISBN: 1903436214, 9781903436219
• Length: 394 pages
• Subjects: Drama / General; Drama / Shakespeare; Literary Criticism / Renaissance; Literary Criticism / Shakespeare