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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 50. )INTRODUCTION Written after such Shakespearean histories as Henry V and before such tragedies as Hamlet, Julius Caesar has been described by critics as a play that contains elements of both genres. Julius Caesar has also...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 85. )INTRODUCTION Scholars generally date the composition of Julius Caesar to 1599, between Shakespeare's Henry V and Hamlet, and suggest that the drama combines the elements of Shakespearean history and tragedy. Set in Rome...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 63. )INTRODUCTION Likely written and first performed in 1599 between Shakespeare's Henry V and Hamlet, Julius Caesar occupies a transitional space between the genres of history and tragedy. Set in Julian Rome in 44 B.c., the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 142. )INTRODUCTION One of Shakespeare's best-known Roman plays, Julius Caesar (1599) narrates the circumstances surrounding the assassination of the famous Roman leader in 44 B.C. In the drama, the patrician Cassius seeks to...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 27. )INTRODUCTION The study of Shakespeare's use and conception of the classical past has become an increasingly important part of modern scholarship, which has taken as one of its goals the thorough delineation of the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 105. )INTRODUCTION Scholars generally agree that Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599. Designated one of Shakespeare's Roman plays, Caesar-like Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus-is based, in part, on Thomas...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 17. )Throughout most of its history, Julius Caesar has been highly popular in the theater, affording stage managers numerous occasions to present splendid pageants, stately processions, and exciting battle sequences, as well...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 95. )INTRODUCTION Written and first performed in 1599, Julius Caesar is generally regarded as a transitional play in Shakespeare's dramatic oeuvre. While the work contains elements of the political concerns found in the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 30. )INTRODUCTION Much of the recent critical debate regarding Julius Caesar has focused on the political parallels between Elizabethan England and ancient Rome as Shakespeare depicted it. While most critics hesitate to...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Julius CaesarIn the following essay, Charney offers an overview of Julius Caesar. The critic examines the way in which Shakespeare compressed historical events, the relation of the play to Shakespeare's English history plays, and the...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 7. )DATE: Modern scholars generally agree that Julius Caesar was written and first performed in 1599. Its immediate predecessor in the Shakespeare canon is Henry V, the last of his English history plays, and it comes...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 124. )INTRODUCTION Julius Caesar was most likely written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's "Roman" plays, which dramatize the lives of Roman leaders. Based largely on Thomas North's 1579 English translation of Plutarch's...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 74. )INTRODUCTION Julius Caesar contains elements of both Shakespeare's histories and tragedies, and has been classified as a "problem play" by some scholars. Set in Rome in 44 B.C., the play describes a senatorial conspiracy...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 154. )INTRODUCTION Likely one of the earliest plays performed at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Julius Caesar probably debuted in 1599. It is the second of Shakespeare's four Roman plays, following Titus Andronicus (1594) and...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 115. )INTRODUCTION Likely written and first performed in 1599, Shakespeare’ s Julius Caesar capitalized on a widespread early modern fascination with both the intrepid life and the audacious assassination of the iconic Roman...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From: Shakespeare on the American Stage from the Hallams to Edwin Booth, TheShattuck assembles contemporary reviews to provide an overview of Edwin Booth's climactic achievement as a stage manager: his presentation of Julius Caesar. He surveys the elaborate grandeur of the stage scenery,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 133. )INTRODUCTION Likely written and first performed in 1599, Julius Caesar is the most popular of Shakespeare's Roman dramas, a group of plays which also comprises Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Titus Andronicus. As...Found in Shakespearean Criticism
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From:Poetry Criticism (Vol. 154. )INTRODUCTION Likely written in the 1640s by Renaissance poet Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) and collected in Miscellaneous Poems (1681), "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun" has long been a favorite with readers...Found in Poetry Criticism
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From:Shakespearean Criticism (Vol. 1. )DATE: The date of Hamlet's composition has been designated as being after 1598 but prior to 1602. The earlier date is determined by its exclusion from the list of Shakespeare's works in Francis Meres's Palladis Tamia,...Found in Shakespearean Criticism