S H A K E S P E A R E -- PREFACE The text of this edition of Julius
Casar 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 Hudsons 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 and these, with every
variation from the First Folio, are indicated in the textual notes.
These notes are printed immediately below the text so that a reader
or student may see at a glance the evidence in the case of a
disputed reading and have some definite understanding of the
reasons for those differences in the text of Shakespeare which
frequently surprise and very often annoy. A consideration of the
more poetical, or the more dramatically effective, of two variant
readings will often lead to rich results in awakening a spirit of
discriminating interpretation and in developing true creative
criticism. In no sense is this a textual variorum edition. The
variants given are only those of importance and high authority. The
spelling and the punctuation of the text are modern, except in the
case of verb terminations in - ed, which, when the e is silent, are
printed with the apostrophe in its place. This is the general usage
in the First ... Folio. Modern spelling has to a certain extent
been followed in the text variants but the original spelling has
been retained wherever its peculiarities have been the basis for
important textual criticism and emendation. With the exception of
the position of the textual variants, the plan of this edition is
similar to that of theold 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
endeavour 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 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 lv 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
Daniells patience, accuracy, and judgment this volume owes both its
freedom from many a blunder and its possession of a carefully
arranged index. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. S 0 c - - - - - - . - -
THEMAINSTOR - Y - - - - - NORTHS P LUTARCH - - - - - APPIANS R OMAN
WARS - - - - EARLIERP LAYS - - - - - - THE S CENE O F THE
ASSASSINATIO - N - - E T T U, B R U T E - - - - - - BRUTUSS
PEECH1,1 1, ii - - - - - 11. DATE O F COMPOSITIO - N - - - - -
EXTERNALEVIDENCE - - - - - - INTERNALEVIDENCE - - - - - - 111.
EARLY EDITIONS - - - - - - - FOLIOS - - - - - - THE QUARTO OF 1691
- - - - - RO ESEDITION - S - - - - - IV. THETITLE - - - - - - - -
V. DRAMATICCO NSTRUCTI A O N N D DEVELOPMEN - T - ANALYSI B S Y ACT
AND SCENE - - - VI...
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