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Zusatztext Praise for William Shakespeare: Complete Works “Remarkable . . . makes Shakespeare’s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.”—James Shapiro! professor! Columbia University! bestselling author of A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599 “A feast of literary and historical information.”— The Wall Street Journal Informationen zum Autor William Shakespeare Edited by David Bevington and David Scott Kastan Klappentext 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. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography [Dramatis Personae julius caesar CALPERNIA, Caesar's wife mark antony, OCTAVIOUS CAESAR, triumvirs after Caesar's death LEPIDUS, MARCUS BRUTUS PORTIA, Brutus's wife CAIUS CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CINNA, conspirators with Brutus METELLUS CIMBER, TREBONIUS, CAIUS LIGARIUS, CICERO, PUBLIUS, senators POPILIUS LENA, FLAVIUS, tribunes of the people MARULIUS, SOOTHSAYER ARTEMIDORUS, a teacher of rhetoric CINNA, a poet Another POET LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, YOUNG CATO, VOLUMNIUS, officers and soldiers in the army VARRO, of Brutus and Cassius CLAUDIUS, CLITUS, DARDANIUS, LABEO, FLAVIUS, PINDARUS, Cassius's servant LUCIUS, Brutus's servants strato, Caesar's SERVANT Antony's SERVANT Octavius's SERVANT CARPENTER COBBLER Five PLEBEIANS Three SOLDIERS in Brutus's army Two SOLDIERS in Antony's army MESSENGER GHOST of Caesar Senators, Plebeians, Officers, Soldiers, and Attendants SCENE: Rome; the neighborhood of Sardis; the neighborhood of Philippi] 1.1 Location: Rome. A street. 3 mechanical of the artisan class 4 sign garb and implements 10 in . . . workman (1) as far as skilled work is concerned (2) compared with a skilled worker 11 cobbler (1) one who works with shoes (2) bungler. 14 soles (With pun on "souls.") 15 naughty good-for-nothing 16 out out of temper 17 out having worn-out shoes. mend you (1) cure your bad temper (2) repair your shoes. 19 cobble you mend your shoes. (The meaning "to pelt with stones" also suggests itself here, though perhaps it was not in general use until later in the seventeenth century.) 1.1 * Enter Flavius, Marullus, and certain commoners over the stage. FLAVIUS Hence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home! Is this a holiday? What, know you not, Being mechanical, you ought not walk 3 Upon a laboring day without the sign 4 Of your profession?--Speak, what trade art thou? CARPENTER Why, sir, a carpenter. MARULLUS Where is thy leather apron an...
