Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) Julius Cæsar

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is the best known and most widely read of his Roman plays. Its portraits of ambition, loyalty, and treachery remain evergreen. The funeral orations by Brutus and Mark Antony remain some of Shakespeare’s greatest poetry, and present a study in contrasting rhetoric for the reader. This edition comes from the 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, ed. with a glossary by W.J. Craig M.A. (Oxford University Press, 1916).

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After Holinshed’s history of England and Boccaccio’s Decameron, one of Shakespeare’s most influential sources was Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, more generally known as Plutarch’s Lives. Shakespeare drew extensively--though never without variation--from Plutarch’s Lives for his plays Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, and Timon of Athens.

Critical Responses

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Garth Bond

Garth Bond considers Julius Caesar and other Shakespearean insurrections.

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Antony and Cleopatra

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Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra continues the story of Julius Caesar’s friend Mark Antony after Caesar’s death.

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You can find the sections of Plutarch’s Lives most directly related to Julius Caesar in this collection of extracts from the work designed for use by readers of Shakespeare.

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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Suetonius Tranquillus

Yet another version of the life of Julius Caesar is found in Suetonius’s The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. It might make an interesting historical study to contrast this version with Plutarch’s and with Shakespeare’s.

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The Divine Comedy

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Dante places Julius Caesar in Limbo, with other virtuous pagans, in the Divine Comedy. Cassio and Brutus, who betrayed him, are in the deepest circle of the Inferno, in the very mouth of Lucifer.

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Folger Shakespeare

Listen to some selections from a performance of Julius Caesar at the Folger Library, including the great funeral orations by Brutus and Mark Antony.

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