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The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

William Shakespeare

The play dramatizes the conspiracy to assassinate Roman dictator Julius Caesar and the civil war that follows.

"The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar" by William Shakespeare is a historical tragedy. The play dramatizes the conspiracy to assassinate Roman dictator Julius Caesar and the civil war that follows.

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I. North's Plutarch. There is no possible doubt that in Julius Cæsar Shakespeare derived the great body of his historical material from The Life of Julius Cæsar, The Life of Marcus Brutus, and The Life of Marcus Antonius viii in Sir Thomas North's translation of Plutarch.[1] This work was first printed in 1579 in a massive folio dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. A second edition appeared in 1595, and in all probability this was the edition read by Shakespeare. The title-page is reproduced in facsimile on page ix.

Contents

  1. 01Preface
  2. 02Contents
  3. 03Introduction
  4. 04Analysis by Act and Scene
  5. 05Julius Cæsar
  6. 06Dramatis Personæ
  7. 07Act I.
  8. 08I. 1 Scene I. Rome. A street
  9. 09I. 2 Scene II. A public place
  10. 10I. 3 Scene III. The same. A street
  11. 11Act II
  12. 12II. 1 Scene I. Rome. Brutus's orchard
  13. 13II. 2 Scene II. Cæsar's house
  14. 14II. 3 Scene III. A street near the Capitol
  15. 15II. 4 Scene IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus
  16. 16Act III
  17. 17III. 1 Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting
  18. 18III. 2 Scene II. The Forum
  19. 19III. 3 Scene III. A street
  20. 20Act IV
  21. 21IV. 1 Scene I. Rome. A room in Antony's house
  22. 22IV. 2 Scene II. Before Brutus's tent, in the camp near Sardis
  23. 23IV. 3 Scene III. Brutus's tent
  24. 24Act V
  25. 25V. 1 Scene I. The plains of Philippi
  26. 26V. 2 Scene II. The field of battle
  27. 27V. 3 Scene III. Another part of the field
  28. 28V. 4 Scene IV. Another part of the field.
  29. 29V. 5 Scene V. Another part of the field
  30. 30Index

About this edition

Author
William Shakespeare
Era
Early modern (c. 1500–1800)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
259 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers