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Tables of Contents for Understanding Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
1 Interpreting Julius Caesar
1
24
2 Caesar on the Elizabethan Stage
25
18
From Thomas Platter's Observations of London (1599)
30
4
From The Tragedy of Caesar and Pompey; Or Caesar's Revenge (1607)
34
9
3 Elizabethan Legacies
43
64
From Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Caesar and Life of Brutus (1579)
52
31
From Arthur Golding's translation of Caesar's Gallic Wars (1565)
83
6
From Sir Thomas Elyot's The Governour (1531)
89
3
From John Higgens' Mirrour for Magistrates (1587)
92
7
From Arthur Golding's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses (1567)
99
1
From Jonathan Swift's "A Voyage to Laputa," Gulliver's Travels (1727)
100
7
4 Julius Caesar and the Lincoln Assassination
107
26
From John Howard Payne's Brutus; Or The Fall of Tarquin (1819)
112
6
From "Winter Garden, Special Announcement" (Nov. 25, 1864)
118
2
From "Attempt to Burn the City" (Nov. 27, 1864)
120
1
From "The Attempted Incendiarism in the City--Failure of the Scheme" (Nov. 27, 1864)
121
1
From "Winter Garden--The Shakspere Benefit" (Nov. 26, 1864)
122
1
From "Public Amusements--New York Destined (Nov. 27, 1864)
123
5
From "Booth's Diary" (April 1864)
128
5
5 Teaching Julius Caesar
133
62
From Ann Thompson's "Does It Matter Which Edition You Use?" (1991)
139
5
From Maynard Mack's "Teaching Drama: Julius Caesar" (1960)
144
17
From A. P. Rossiter's Julius Caesar, A Basic English Expansion (1941)
161
34
6 Julius Caesar: Popular Culture and High Art
195
44
From John Houseman's "Filming Julius Caesar" (1953)
202
10
From James Baldwin's "Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare" (1964)
212
4
From Mad Magazine's "Julius Caesar, Lesson 1" (1965)
216
1
From Mad Magazine's "Call Me Julius" (1971)
217
1
From Mad Magazine's "The Bard in Birdland" (1961)
218
4
From Frank Jacobs' "The Julius Caesar Rap" (1992)
222
5
From Julius Caesar, Travestie (c. 1861)
227
12
Index
239