Milton
Shakespeare, William.
Julius Cæsar.
Edited by W. J. Rolfe.
American Book. .56
The Tragedie of Julius Cæsar was first published in the Folio of 1623.... The date at which the drama was written has been variously fixed by the critics....Halliwell has shown that it was written "in or before the year 1601." ... The only source from which Shakespeare appears to have derived his materials was Sir Thomas North's version of Plutarch's Lives.... Shakespeare has in this play and elsewhere shown the same penetration into political character and the springs of public events as into those of every-day life.--Introduction.
The merit I see in Mr. Rolfe's school editions of Shakspere's Plays over those most widely used in England is that Mr. Rolfe edits the plays as works of a poet, and not only as productions in Tudor English.
F.J. Furnivall.
Shakespeare, William.
Macbeth.
Edited by W. J. Rolfe.
American Book. .56