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List of illustrations | |
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About Longman Cultural Editions | |
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About this Volume | |
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Introduction | |
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Table of Dates | |
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Text: Julius Caesar | |
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Contexts | |
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Sources | |
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Thomas North, from Plutarch's Lives of the Greeks and Romans (1579) | |
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The Supernatural: Divine Signs, Ghosts, and Prophetic Dreams | |
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Signs from heaven: divining the future in Caesar's Rome and Shakespeare's England | |
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Thomas North, fromPlutarch's The Life of Julius Caesar | |
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Ludwig Lavater,from Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night (1572) | |
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Abraham Fleming, from A straunge and terrible wunder wrought very late in the parish church of Bongay (1577) from theGeneva Bible (1560) | |
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Martin Luther from A very comfortable and necessary sermon...concerning the comming of our Savior Christ to Judgment and the signs that go before the Last Day (1570) | |
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William Fulke,from Antiprognosticon (1560) | |
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Ghosts | |
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Thomas North, from Plutarch's Life of Marcus Brutus | |
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Ludwig Lavater,from Of Ghostes and Spirites, Walking by Night (1572) | |
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Dreams | |
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Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro), from the Aeneid | |
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Thomas Hill, from The Moste pleasaunte Arte of the Interpretacioun of Dreams (1567) | |
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Republicanism, Popular Politics, and the Rhetoric of Liberty In 1599 | |
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Freedom and English IdentityWilliam Harrison, from The Description of England (1587) | |
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James Morice, from a speech in the House of Commons, February 27, 1593 | |
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Parliament and Liberty | |
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John Hooker (alias Vowell), from The order and usage of the Keeping of a Parliament in England (1571) | |
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Sir Thomas Smith, from De Republicum Anglorum (1583) | |
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Republican Rome and the Elizabethan Political Imagination | |
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John Hooker (alias Vowell), from The order and usage of the Keeping of a Parliament in England (1571) | |
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Roman Tyranny in Elizabethan Context | |
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Sir William Fitzwilliam, from his parliamentary diary (1584-85) | |
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Richard Martin, from a speech in the House of Commons, November 20, 1601 | |
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Sir Thomas Hetley (Hedley), from a speech in the House of Commons, June 8, 1610 | |
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Performance History | |
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Shakespeare in Hollywood, Part I: The Hollywood Carnival Association Production of 1916 | |
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Advertisements, Articles, and Reviews from The Los Angeles Times | |
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Julius Caesar and the Political Crisis of the Twentieth Century: Orson Welles' Mercury Theater Production of 1937 | |
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Articles and Reviews from The Washington Post and the Chicago Daily Tribune | |
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Shakespeare in Hollywood, Part II: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Julius Caesar (1953) | |
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Articles and Reviews from the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Daily Tribune | |
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Reception | |
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Thomas Rymer, from A Short View of Tragedy (1693) | |
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Joseph Addison, from the Tatler (1709) | |
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Nicholas Rowe, from Some Account of the Life, etc, of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709) | |
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Lewis Theobald, from The Censor (1717) | |
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Voltaire, from Discours sur la trag�die, � milord Bolingbroke (1731) | |
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Elizabeth Montagu, from An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare (1769) | |
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Edward Capell, from Notes and Various Readings to Shakespeare (1779) | |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Lectures and notes on Shakespeare and other English poets (1811) | |
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William Hazlitt,from Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817) | |
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George Bernard Shaw, from a review in The Saturday Review, January 29, 1898 | |
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August Strindberg, from Open Letters to the Intimate Theater (1909) | |
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Yves Bonnefoy, from Shakespeare and the French Poet (2004) | |
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Further Reading | |