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- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
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- Henry V after the War on Terror
- Economies of Gunpowder and Ecologies of Peace: Accounting for Sustainability
- Shakespeare and Religious War: New Developments on the Italian Sources of Twelfth Night
- ‘Thou Laidst No Sieges to the Music-Room’: Anatomizing Wars, Staging Battles
- Shakespearian Narratives of War: Trauma, Repetition and Metaphor
- War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642–1649
- Antic Dispositions: Shakespeare, War and Cabaret
- The Comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw: An Exploration of Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- The Lion and the Lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II
- Dividing to Conquer or Joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare’s Lady Anne (and Woolf’s Three Guineas) in the Wake of #MeToo
- The Homeland of Coriolanus: War Homecomings between Shakespeare’s Stage and Current Complex TV
- Scholarly Method, Truth and Evidence in Shakespearian Textual Studies
- Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar
- Ancient Aesthetics and Current Conflicts: Indian Rasa Theory and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014)
- Failure to Thrive
- Tippett’s Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden
- Tautological Character: Troilus and Cressida and the Problems of Personation
- ‘Rude Wind’: King Lear – Canonicity versus Physicality
- Content but Also Unwell: Distributed Character and Language in The Merchant of Venice
- Autistic Culture, Shakespeare therapy and the Hunter Heartbeat Method
- The Senecan Tragedy of Feste in Twelfth Night
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2018
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2017
- The Year’s Contributions To Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 72
- Index
Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2019
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Book contents
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Shakespeare Survey
- Copyright page
- Editor’s Note
- Contributors
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Henry V after the War on Terror
- Economies of Gunpowder and Ecologies of Peace: Accounting for Sustainability
- Shakespeare and Religious War: New Developments on the Italian Sources of Twelfth Night
- ‘Thou Laidst No Sieges to the Music-Room’: Anatomizing Wars, Staging Battles
- Shakespearian Narratives of War: Trauma, Repetition and Metaphor
- War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642–1649
- Antic Dispositions: Shakespeare, War and Cabaret
- The Comedy of Hamlet in Nazi-Occupied Warsaw: An Exploration of Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be (1942)
- The Lion and the Lamb: Hamlet in London during World War II
- Dividing to Conquer or Joining the ReSisters: Shakespeare’s Lady Anne (and Woolf’s Three Guineas) in the Wake of #MeToo
- The Homeland of Coriolanus: War Homecomings between Shakespeare’s Stage and Current Complex TV
- Scholarly Method, Truth and Evidence in Shakespearian Textual Studies
- Beautiful Polecats: The Living and the Dead in Julius Caesar
- Ancient Aesthetics and Current Conflicts: Indian Rasa Theory and Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider (2014)
- Failure to Thrive
- Tippett’s Tempest: Shakespeare in The Knot Garden
- Tautological Character: Troilus and Cressida and the Problems of Personation
- ‘Rude Wind’: King Lear – Canonicity versus Physicality
- Content but Also Unwell: Distributed Character and Language in The Merchant of Venice
- Autistic Culture, Shakespeare therapy and the Hunter Heartbeat Method
- The Senecan Tragedy of Feste in Twelfth Night
- Shakespeare Performances in England, 2018
- Professional Shakespeare Productions in the British Isles, January–December 2017
- The Year’s Contributions To Shakespeare Studies
- Abstracts of Articles in Shakespeare Survey 72
- Index
Summary
Dr Johnson said that a pun was Shakespeare’s fatal Cleopatra. I want to argue that puns are, appropriately enough, at work with particular vigour in a play about one of Cleopatra’s lovers. Julius Caesar features a series of puns very early on, starting with the Cobbler’s ‘[a] trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles’ (1.1.13–14),2 and followed by his retort to Flavius – ‘[n]ay I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet if you be out, sir, I can mend you’ (1.1.16–17) – and finally by ‘[t]ruly, sir, all that I live by, is with the awl’ (1.1.22).
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- Shakespeare Survey 72 , pp. 160 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019