New Folger Library Shakespeare

"An updated edition with detailed notes from the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies"--Cover

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar -- Reading Shakespeare's language: Julius Caesar -- Shakespeare's life -- Shakespeare's theater -- The publication of Shakespeare's plays -- An introduction to this text -- Julius Caesar: text of the play with commentary -- Textual notes -- Julius Caesar: a modern perspective by Coppélia Kahn

Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar's death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. Shakespeare's play keeps this debate alive

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