"Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves,
What things are we! Merely our own traitors."
"I would gladly have him see his company anatomised,
That he might take a measure of his own judgments."
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
"Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious things we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave:
Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,
Destroy our friends and after weep their dust."
Julius Cæsar.
Written. 1601 (?)
Produced. (?)
Published, in the first folio, 1623.
Source of the Plot. The Lives of Antonius, Brutus and Julius Cæsar in Sir Thomas North's Plutarch.
A tragedy of Julius Cæsar, now lost, was performed by Shakespeare's company in 1594. Shakespeare must have known this play.