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List of illustrations

General editors' preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 The play

 Julius Caesar in London in 1599

 The language of Julius Caesar

 Structures

 Shakespeare's sources

 Julius Caesar and the critics

 Julius Caesar m performance

 The text

JULIUS CAESAR

Appendix: Plutarch's Lives of the

 Noble Grecians and Romanes

Abbreviations and references

 Abbreviations used in notes

 Shakespeare's works and works partly by Shakespeare

 Editions of Shakespeare collated

 Other works

Index