William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, , Ratri Ray, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd., 9788126916061

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William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Ratri Ray (Author)

Synopsis

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: How to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work daringly sets out to do. It provides the reader with biographical socio political and the literary background of Shakespeare.

Julius Caesar belongs to the group of the Roman plays. It is both a history play and a tragedy. There are three plays within this group Julius Caesar Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus. There are other plays concerned with Roman historical figures but they do not fall within this group. Titus Andronicus is a Senecan tragedy and Timon of Athens a Problem comedy. Julius Caesar is a play faithful to history, for Shakespeare had followed the Roman historian Plutarch very closely, yet it is not just a history play as shall be seen in the chapter dealing with the genre of the play. It has been called in addition to a historical tragedy a morality play and a revenge tragedy. The complexity of the play can be imagined from these simple indications.

This book in The Atlantic Critical Studies series focuses on the major elements of the play. A scene wise critical summary of the text is given in order to familiarise the reader with the play. Numerous quotations from the text have also been given. Different elements of drama have been analysed along with the views of renowned critics. Classical theories as well as more recent critical views have been given which makes the book useful to the teachers as well as students of English literature especially Shakespeare. Select bibliography has been provided to stimulate further reading and index is given for easy location of terms.

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About the author

Ratri Ray

Ratri Ray is a retired University Professor and Head of the Deptt. of English, Patna University. As a student she had a unique career, for she had been awarded three gold medals for her B.A. results and two more for her M.A. results. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in 1981, her field of work being the little-known nineteenth-century poet, T.L. Beddoes. Later, after two decades of extensive and intensive studies, she obtained the D.Litt. degree, the field this time being the comparative study of two mystical poets, Francis Thompson and Nishikanto, a Bengali poet. Her studies of six Shakespearean plays according to the Rasavada had been serialised during the 80s and 90s in the cultural periodical Mother India, published from Pondicherry. She has published numerous research articles in literary journals and anthologies all over India. one of these contributions, a serialised study of 28 articles on the element of myth in Sri aurobindo's poetry is shortly to be published in the book form. At present her research articles on the plays of Sri Aurobindo studied in the light of Rasavada are being serialised in srinvantu, a periodical published from Kolkata.

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