Collects nine critical essays on William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," and includes an introduction by critic Harold Bloom as well as a chronology and a bibliography.

Calphurnia's dream and communication with the audience in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Terrence N. Tice -- Julius Caesar: the forum scene as historic play-within / Robert F. Willson Jr. -- Manliness and friendship in Julius Caesar / Jan H. Blits -- Plebian politics in Julius Caesar / Nicholas Visser -- The problem of Brutus's paternity in Julius Caesar (in partial relation to Hamlet) / R.F. Fleissner -- Julius Caesar: conscience and conspiracy / John Roe -- Embodied masculinity in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Lloyd Davis -- "That every like is not the same": the vicissitudes of language in Julius Caesar / Barbara J. Baines -- "Bare life": political order and the specter of antisocial being in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Daniel Juan Gil.