Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar Criticism

• Julius Caesar (Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism)
  • Introduction
  • Principal Works
  • Criticism
    • The Bellum Gallicum as a Work of Propaganda
    • The Literary Form, The Purpose and Content of Caesar's Commentaries, and Style and Personality
    • On the Date and Interpretation of the Bellum Civile
    • Caesar and Caesarism in the Historical Writing of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
    • Caesar's Battle-Descriptions and the Defeat of Ariovistus
    • Caesar and the War as Reflected in His Commentaries
    • Caesar's Practical Prose
    • XPDNC / Writing Caesar
    • The Rhetoric of Combat: Greek Military Theory and Roman Culture in Julius Caesar's Battle Descriptions
    • The Camp of Pompey: Strategy of Representation in Caesar's Bellum Ciuile
  • Further Reading
• Julius Caesar (Vol. 74)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Julius Caesar: Two Visions of the Past
    • Portia and Calpurnia
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Julius Caesar in the Cold War: The Houseman-Mankiewicz Film
    • The Politics of the Toga Era, Big, Bold, and Often Bloody
    • Public's Julius Caesar Squanders Wright Stuff
    • Bring Me the Head of David McCallum
  • Criticism: Themes
    • History and the Histories in Julius Caesar
    • Personality and Politics in Julius Caesar
    • Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Julius Caesar
    • The Whore of Babylon and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
  • Further Reading
• Julius Caesar (Vol. 85)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Mind of Brutus
    • The Elements Were So Mix'd …
    • Julius Caesar and the Judgment of the Senses
    • Brutus's Nature and Shakespeare's Art
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Julius Caesar
    • Review of Julius Caesar
    • Let's Drop the Fascist Caesar and Give the Middle Classes a Real Challenge
    • Review of Julius Caesar
    • Review of Julius Caesar
    • Review of Julius Caesar
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Julius Caesar in the Light of Renaissance Historiography
    • Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: An Apollonian and Comparative Reading
    • Julius Caesar: Room Enough
    • Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the Irony of History
    • Julius Caesar: Rupture in the Bond
    • ‘Is This a Holiday?’: Shakespeare's Roman Carnival
    • Julius Caesar, Machiavelli, and the Uses of History
  • Further Reading
• Caesar, Julius
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Romans
    • Play Structure and Dramatic Technique in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
    • Introduction to Julius Caesar
  • Politics And Power
    • The Shift of Power in Julius Caesar
    • Power and Spirit in Julius Caesar
    • Julius Caesar and the Tyrannicide Debate
  • Language
    • The Power of Speech / To Stir Men's Blood': The Language of Tragedy in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
    • Politics, Rhetoric, and Will-Power in Julius Caesar
  • Brutus
    • Brutus, Virtue, and Will
    • Suicide and Brutus' Philosophy in Julius Caesar
    • Brutus: 'Noblest Roman of Them All'
  • Historical Context
    • Shakespeare and History
    • Conjuring Caesar: Ceremony, History, and Authority in 1599
    • The Crisis of Aristocracy in Julius Caesar
  • Further Reading
• Untired Spirits and Formal Constancy: Julius Caesar
  • Introduction
  • 'A thing unfirm': the world of Julius Caesar
  • 'True fixed and resting quality': Senecan constancy
  • Roman opinion
  • 'A Roman's part': Ciceronian decorum
  • 'Like Brutus, like himself
• No Spectre, No Sceptre: The Agon of Materialist Thought in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
• Julius Caesar (Vol. 50)
  • Introduction
  • Overview
    • Introduction to Commentary
  • Social Class
    • On Updating Shakespeare: Part I
    • Julius Caesar
    • History As Nobility: In the Theater of Pompey
    • The Crisis of the Aristocracy in Julius Caesar
    • Authority and Violence
  • Characterization
    • Shakespeare's Caesar's Plan
    • Caska: Stoic, Cynic, 'Christian'
  • Rituals And Omens
    • Julius Caesar
    • Dream and Interpretation: Julius Caesar
    • Thou Bleeding Piece of Early: The Ritual Ground of Julius Caesar
    • The Numbering of Men and Days: Symbolic Design in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
  • Further Reading
• Julius Caesar and the Properties of Shakespeare's Globe
  • Introduction
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  • III
  • IV
  • V
• Julius Caesar (Vol. 63)
  • Introduction
  • The Modernity of Julius Caesar
  • Criticism: Dramaturgy And Metadrama
    • Julius Caesar: The Forum Scene as Historic Play-within
    • Julius Caesar and ‘Dramatic Coquetry’
    • Julius Caesar and the Properties of Shakespeare's Globe
  • Criticism: Philosophy And Theology
    • The Speculative Eye: Problematic Self-Knowledge in Julius Caesar
    • The Cause of Suffering and the Birth of Compassion in Julius Caesar
  • Criticism: Rhetoric And Meaning
    • Orator and Imperator in Julius Caesar: Style and the Process of Roman History
    • The Historical Subject as Roman Actor and Agent of History: Interrogative Dramatic Structure in Julius Caesar
  • Criticism: The Roman Hero: Interpreting Character
    • Play, Ritualization, and Ambivalence in Julius Caesar
    • Politics and the Ethics of Intention: Brutus' Glorious Failure
    • Ironic Heroism in Julius Caesar: A Repudiation of the Past
    • Portia's Wound, Calphurnia's Dream: Reading Character in Julius Caesar
    • ‘With Himself at War’: Shakespeare's Roman Hero and the Republican Tradition
  • Further Reading