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The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

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.

This edition includes:
-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a m

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      Publisher Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.
      Published 1 January 2004
      ISBN-13 9780743482745
      978-0743482745
      ISBN-10 0743482743
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

      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.

      This edition includes:
      -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
      -Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
      -Scene-by-scene plot summaries
      -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases
      -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language
      -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a m

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