Julius Caesar

Beautifully designed and carefully proofed for digital publication, this new edition includes:

Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play;
Newly revised explanatory notes;
Scene-by-scene plot summaries;
A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases;
A new introduction;
A new detailed biography;
An up-to-date annotated guide to further reading;
Table of Contents with quick navigation.



Shakespeare may have written “Julius Caesar” as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive.