Julius Caesar

The Boynton/Cook editions of four of Shakespeare's most popularplays have been reissued with attractive new cover designs andprinted on more opaque, easy-to-read paper. This series isspecifically designed for high school classes.

Students will be able to see each play as a whole. In theirintroduction to each of the plays, editors Mack and Boynton suggestways of approaching the text that allow the reader a broad range ofimaginative involvement. Their observations are intended to helpstudents read and experience the play, not to discourage them withcritical jargon or peripheral historical information.
Students will be reading the best text both in terms of visualexcellence and quality of scholarship. They'll immediatelyappreciate the large page format and highly readable typography.Each volume is consistent with the most authoritative early editionof each play. The glosses are full and clear but don't belabor theobvious or clutter the text.
Background information includes the editors' detailed analysis ofthe Elizabethan theatre and its relation to Shakespeare'sdramaturgy, C. W. Hodges's drawing re-creating the original GlobePlayhouse, a brief account of Shakespeare's life and achronological listing of his works, and a bibliography, lists ofvideotapes (VHS), records, and tapes of the complete plays.
Students will experience added critical and imaginative dimensions.An essay following each play suggests ways of approaching it as alive dramatic experience in the theatre of the mind. The concern isnot how the play might be produced in a theatre, but rather howparts of it may be realized in the imagination through closeattention to what the language is saying and suggesting.
Students can get a deeper understanding of each scene throughhelpful, detailed questions included at the back of each volume.These questions encourage group discussion or written response.Also included are topics for longer papers.