Overview

Through considerable detective work, this work sets out to show that ""Julius Caeser"" was the first play performed at the new Globe Theatre on 12 June 1599. Drawing on many areas of expertise, which are rarely allied in Shakespeare scholarship to such an extent, including biblical, liturgical, social and theatrical history, the author sheds new light not only on ""Julius Caeser"" but on a variety of accepted beliefs. These include: why Hamlet was not crowned king when his father died; why Brutus would not swear to murder Caeser; why the Elizabethan authorities retained the Julian calender; and why the orthodox dates of the first composition of both ""Twelfth Night"" and ""Hamlet"" can be called into question.

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Author:   Steve Sohmer ,  Steve Sohmer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9780719055669

ISBN 10:   0719055660
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   13 May 1999
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 The building of the Globe and the Elizabethan calendar controversy: building Shakespeare's Globe; Julius Caesar and the Elizabethan calendar controversy; calendrical markers in Julius Caesar ; temporal markers to mid-June 1599 in Julius Caesar ; Shakespeare's Corpus Christi archetypre Part 2 Endemic time confusion in Julius Caesar : the web of Caesar's time; Shakespeare's vernal equinox gambit - Here lies the East... ; why the Sunne of Rome set at three o'clock. Part 3 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the moveable feast discordnaces of 1599: the disrupted Easter cycle of 1599; Shrovetide, Saint Valentine's Eve, and the Roman Lupercal; Ash Wednesday, the night of the Lupercal and the eve of the Ides of March; Good Friday, the Ides of March, and the day Christ died; Shakespeare's Third day, the Book of Samuel and the Mass of the Catechumens; Holy Easter, and Shakespeare's April Fools. Part 4 Shakespeare among the assassins: the writer who changed the world. Part 5 Evidence of Calendrical markers in other plays of Shakespeare: prolegomenon for a mode of criticism; Illyria's faulty calendar; real time in Hamlet .

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Steve Sohmer is Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and a Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

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