The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare and Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Westine

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Synopsis: This edition, while retaining many of the features that have always made the Folger Shakespeare so attractive to the general reader, at the same time reflects these current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. For example, modern readers, ac¬tors, and teachers have become interested in the differ¬ences between, on the one hand, the early forms in which Shakespeare's plays were first published and, on the other hand, the forms in which editors through the centuries have presented them. In response to this interest, we have based our edition on what we consider the best early printed version of a particular play (ex¬plaining our rationale in a section called "An Introduc¬tion to This Text") and have marked our changes in the text--unobtrusively, we hope, but in such a way that the curious reader can be aware that a change has been made and can consult the "Textual Notes" to discover what appeared in the early printed version.