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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.
''Julius Caesar'', one of [[William Shakespeare's plays]], may have been written 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.


''Julius Caesar'' was printed in the 1623 First Folio. Sources include North's translation of Plutarch's ''Lives''.<ref>Adapted from the Folger Library Shakespeare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 1992 Folger Shakespeare Library.</ref>  
''Julius Caesar'' was printed in the 1623 First Folio. Sources include North's translation of Plutarch's ''Lives''.<ref>Adapted from the Folger Library Shakespeare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 1992 Folger Shakespeare Library.</ref>  
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:Hamnet link to Folger Edition: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=192186/ PR2753 .M6 2004 copy 2 v.8]
:Hamnet link to Folger Edition: [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=192186/ PR2753 .M6 2004 copy 2 v.8]
==In popular contact==


== Translations ==
== Translations ==

Revision as of 15:03, 19 June 2014

Julius Caesar, one of William Shakespeare's plays, may have been written 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.

Julius Caesar was printed in the 1623 First Folio. Sources include North's translation of Plutarch's Lives.[1]

Productions at the Folger

Early editions

First Folio

LUNA: First Folio: 2k1r - 2l5v
Hamnet: STC 22273 Fo. 1 no. 68

Second Folio

LUNA: Second Folio: 2l5r - 2n3v
Hamnet: STC 22274 Fo. 2 no. 07

Modern editions

Julius Caesar can be read online with Folger Digital Texts and purchased from Simon and Schuster.

Hamnet link to Folger Edition: PR2753 .M6 2004 copy 2 v.8

In popular contact

Translations

Performance materials

Other media

Notes

<references>

  1. ↑ Adapted from the Folger Library Shakespeare edition, edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine. © 1992 Folger Shakespeare Library.