Publisher description for Julius Caesar / edited by Richard Wilson.
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This new critical edition of Julius Caesar provides a selection of important essays by leading contemporary critics on Shakespeare's first "Globe" play. New historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and Marxist readings of the tragedy have been chosen to highlight the urgency with which this drama of prophecy, interpretation, and political crisis speaks to 21st-century concerns about democracy, the medi,a and communication.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, Julius Caesar, Caesar, Julius In literature, Assassination in literature, Conspiracies in literature, Assassins in literature, Rome In literature, Tragedy