An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. The authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
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