Julius Caesar • 2013 - Chicago Shakespeare Theater

SUGGESTED READINGS
Michaels, Wendy and Ken Watson The Dogs of War: A Workshop Approach to Julius Caesar New South Wales,
1991 A teaching resource from the Shakespeare Workshop Series looking at a workshop approach to Julius Caesar. The text
is designed to be photocopied to make multiple copies for educational purposes.
Mullaney, Steven The Place of the Stage: License, Play, and Power in Renaissance England Chicago, 1988 Mullaney
examines the culture of popular drama in Elizabethan and Jacobean England by offering an original and historically grounded
perspective on the emergence of popular theater.
Naremore, James Film Adaptation New Brunswick, NJ, 2000 The opening chapters outline the strategies that filmmakers
use in adapting literature into film, which include “cinema as digest” and issues of fidelity to the literary source.
O’Brien, Peggy Shakespeare Set Free New York, 1993 This excellent three-volume set does not include Julius Caesar,
but its “active Shakespeare” approach is adaptable to any play you may be teaching.
Parsons, Keith and Mason, Pamela Shakespeare in Performance London, 1995 An extensively illustrated book detailing
the performance history of Shakespeare’s plays, both on the stage and in film.
Partridge, Eric Shakespeare’s Bawdy London, 2000 Not for the prudish, Partridge’s classic work offers an alphabetical
glossary of the sexual and scatological meanings of Shakespeare’s language. It will help the reader (including even the most
Shakespeare-averse) understand another reason for this playwright’s broad appeal on stage…
Peacock, John Costume 1066–1990s London, 1994 Among the many excellent costume books available, Peacock’s offers
hundreds and hundreds of annotated sketches—an essential resource (from our point of view) for every English classroom’s
study of Shakespeare.
Rosenthal, Daniel Shakespeare on Screen London, 2000 This illustrated book traces the development of cinematic adaptation
of Shakespeare focusing on plays that have been made into films several times. It is an excellent resource to gain insight
into the filmmaking and adaptation process.
Ripley, John Julius Caesar on stage in England and America, 1599-1973 Cambridge, 1980 Ripley offers one of the
most detailed stage histories ever attempted, focusing upon aspects both of English and American staging from 1599 to 1973.
His primary sources include promptbooks and ground plans, letters, diaries and reviews.
Salomone, Ronald E , and James E Davis Teaching Shakespeare into the Twenty-first Century. Athens, 1997 This
collection of essays by high school teachers and college professors offers a wide range of strategies to teach Shakespeare,
including several essays on the use of film and film adaptation in the classroom.
Schanzer, Ernest Julius Caesar, in The Problem Plays of Shakespeare London, 1963 Themes, structural pattern, character-problems,
and the play’s relation to its sources, as well as to other plays in the canon, are all explored.
Shakespeare, William Cambridge School Shakespeare: Julius Caesar Ed Rex Gibson Cambridge This excellent
series, used extensively as a resource in Chicago Shakespeare’s education efforts, currently includes Julius Caesar, along with
more than half of Shakespeare’s other plays, with more to follow. Chicago Shakespeare gratefully thanks Cambridge University
Press for permission to adapt some of the classroom activities annotated throughout this Teacher Handbook.
Wills, Garry Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar New Haven, CT, 2011 This new book illuminates the
various interpretations of Roman history in Shakespeare and is an excellent resource for any teacher choosing to focus on the
play’s use of rhetoric.
indicates a focus on methods for teaching Shakespeare through film.
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