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The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar

William Shakespeare

  • Drama
  • Book language: English
  • 249 pages

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a five-act tragedy set in ancient Rome, included here in the New Hudson Shakespeare edition with introduction and notes. It explores political ambition, loyalty, and honor as a conspiracy forms against Caesar. Listen for its rhetorical power and enduring moral questions.

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Opening of the book

Title Page of Norths Plutarch
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Reproduced from the copy in the Boston Public Library
THE NEW HUDSON SHAKESPEARE
JULIUS CÆSAR
INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
HENRY NORMAN HUDSON, LL.D.
EDITED AND REVISED BY
EBENEZER CHARLTON BLACK LL.D. (GLASGOW)
WITH THE COÖPERATION OF
ANDREW JACKSON GEORGE LITT.D. (AMHERST)
GINN AND COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO LONDON
ATLANTA DALLAS COLUMBUS SAN FRANCISCO

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CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1908

BΏ GINN AND COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

424.12

The Athenæum Press

GINN AND COMPANY PROPRIETORS BOSTON U.S.A.

Transcriber's Note:

Two types of notes appear in the original book: text variants, printed immediately below the text on each page, and editor's notes, printed at the bottom of each page; both types reference the text by line number. In this HTML version, all of the notes are collected together towards the end, before the index, and instead of referencing line numbers, they are numbered sequentially.

There are separate sequences for notes to the Introduction and to each of the five Acts. Anchors in the text are hyperlinked. In some cases, the original references to text line numbers have been preserved.

A list of the abbreviations used in the notes for cited editions can be found on page lv.

As in the original, throughout the text Cæsar is spelled with the ligature æ, except for one instance: "composition of _Julius

Caesar_".

PREFACE

The text of this edition of Julius Cæsar is based upon a collation of the seventeenth century Folios, the Globe edition, and that of Delius. As compared with the text of the earlier editions of Hudson's

Shakespeare, it is conservative. Exclusive of changes in spelling, punctuation, and stage directions, very few emendations by eighteenth century and nineteenth century editors have been adopted;

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Contents

  1. JULIUS CÆSAR
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