Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare; Fully Annotated, with an Introduction, by Burton Raffel; With an Essay by Harold Bloom

• ISBN13: 9780300108095
• ISBN10: 0300108095
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-09-27
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

The first tragedy to be played in the new Globe Theatre,Julius Caesaris set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely removed in time and place from Shakespeare's Elizabethan England, Rome makes the perfect laboratory for the playwright's free-ranging political analysis.

Author Biography

Burton Raffel is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities Emeritus and professor of English emeritus, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His most recent of many edited and translated publications is Das Nibelungenlied, published by Yale University Press. He lives in Lafayette. Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, is the author of many books, including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine.