RICHARD WILSON is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Lancaster and Visiting Professor of Shakespeare at The Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III). He is the author of Will Power: Essays in Shakespearean Authority and a study of Julius Caesar and has edited collections on New Historicism and Renaissance Drama and Christopher Marlow.

• AcknowledgementsGeneral Editors' PrefaceIntroductionThe Crisis of the Aristocracy in  Julius Caesar ;  W. Rebhorn'Is this a holiday?': Shakespeare's Roman Carnival;  R. Wilson'Fashion it thus':  Julius Caesar  and the Politics of Theatrical Representation;  J. DrakakisThe Roman Actor:  Julius Caesar ;  J. GoldbergCollective Violence and Sacrifice in  Julius Caesar ;  R. Girard'Thou Bleeding Piece of Earth': The Ritual Ground of  Julius Caesar ;  N. Con Liebler'In the spirit of men there is no blood': Blood as Trope of Gender in  Julius Caesar ;  G. Kern PasterPortia's Wound, Calphurnia's Dream: Reading Character in  Julius Caesar ;  C. MarshallBardicide;  G. TaylorVicissitudes of the Public Sphere:  Julius Caesar ;  R. HalpernFurther ReadingNotes on ContributorsIndex.