Julius Caesar

Julius Caesars exciting plot, brilliant rhetoric, and searching characterisation have made it one of Shakespeares most popular plays with both readers and theatre-goers.

Introducing this thoroughly reconsidered edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the plays date and its place in the Shakespeare canon and examines Shakespeares transmutation of history into drama. He investigates the plays ethical and moral concerns in a section on Roman values and analyses its fortunes in performance, from its immediately successful first staging to modern productions for cinema, television, and stage.