Julius Caesar

Public affairs and private desires are inextricable in Julius Caesar, Shakespeare’s most famous Roman play. Marvin Spevack’s edition shows how Shakespeare frames the world of this play – person, action, place, time – within the operations of larger forces, mysterious, ironical and undeniable. The commentary is alert to questions of staging and offers precise lexical glossing. For this updated edition, Marga Munkelt adds new sections, bringing the reading list up to date and surveying stage and critical interpretations since the 1980’s.