The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

by William Shakespeare

With the exception of the position of the textual variants, the plan of this edition is similar to that of the old Hudson Shakespeare. It is impossible to specify the various instances of revision and rearrangement in the matter of the Introduction and the interpretative notes, but the endeavor has been to retain all that gave the old edition its unique place and to add the results of what seems vital and permanent in later inquiry and research.

While it is important that the principle of suum cuique be attended to so far as is possible in matters of research and scholarship, it is becoming more and more difficult to give every man his own in Shakespearian annotation. The amount of material accumulated is so great that the identity-origin of much important comment and suggestion is either wholly lost or so crushed out of shape as to be beyond recognition. Instructive significance perhaps attaches to this in editing the works of one who quietly made so much of materials gathered by others. But the list of authorities given on page li will indicate the chief source of much that has gone to enrich the value of this edition. Professor W.P. Trent, of Columbia University, has offered valuable suggestions and given important advice; and to Mr. M. Grant Daniell's patience, accuracy, and judgment this volume owes both its freedom from many a blunder and its possession of a carefully arranged index.

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CONTENTS

[INTRODUCTION]

				Page
I.	[Sources]			vii
		[The Main Story]		vii
			[North's Plutarch]	vii
			[Appian's Roman Wars]	xii
			[Earlier Plays]	xiii
		[The Scene of the Assassination]		xiv
		["Et Tu, Brute"]		xvi
		[Brutus's Speech, III, ii.]		xvi
II.	[Date of Composition]			xvii
		[External Evidence]		xviii
		[Internal Evidence]		xx
III.	[Early Editions]			xxiii
		[Folios]		xxiii
		[The Quarto of 1691]		xxiv
		[Rowe's Editions]		xxiv
IV.	[The Title]			xxv
V.	[Dramatic Construction and Development]			xxv
		[Analysis by Act and Scene]		xxvi
VI.	[Management of Time and Place]			xxx
		[Historic Time]		xxx
		[Dramatic Time]		xxxi
		[Place]		xxxi
VII.	[Versification and Diction]			xxxii
		[Blank Verse]		xxxii
		[Rhyme]		xxxiii
		[Prose]		xxxiii
VIII.	[The Characters]			xxxiv
		[Julius Cæsar]		xxxiv
		[Brutus]		xli
		[Brutus and Cassius]		xlvii
		[Portia]		xlix
		[Antony]		li
		[The People]		liii
IX.	[General Characteristics]			liii
[Authorities (with Abbreviations)]				lv
[Chronological Chart]				lvi
[Distribution of Characters]				lx
[THE TEXT]
[Act I]				3
[Act II]				42
[Act III]				79
[Act IV]				116
[Act V]				144
INDEX
I.	[Words and Phrases]			169
II.	[Quotations From Plutarch]			173

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[INTRODUCTION]