Shakespeare's Tragedy of Julius Caesar (English Classics Series)

199, 4, [4] pp. Maroon cloth boards with gilt titles. Edited, with Notes by William J. Rolfe. With engravings. "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."