Using this Edition:
Choose from the several different editions of Shakespeare's play listed below. This site also provides critical material on Julius Caesar. You may read the commentary alongside either modernized or original editions by first clicking into those editions and using the link menu on the right side of the screen.

You may also select from the list of additional criticism below. This list includes the scholarly commentary gathered by an editor -- H. H. Furness, editor of the 1913 Variorum edition -- that is not included in the page-by-page commentary you will find alongside the text. In the print edition, most of this can be found in the appendix. This critical material has been selected from approximately three hundred years of scholarly discussions among various editors and critics of the play.

1. 1623 First Folio -- dramatic text with commentary by Variorum editor H. H. Furness, Jr. (1913)

2. 1623 First Folio -- facsimile edition

• Character Analyses: What have scholars said about the play's characters since it was first published?
  
• Brief Textual History of the Variorum First Folio transcription (#1 above)
  
• Date of Composition of the Variorum First Folio transcription (#1 above)
  
• Primary Source of the Plot: Selections from Plutarch's Parallel Lives with links back into the pertinent parts of the play. (Click here for complete texts of Plutarch translated by Sir Thomas North.)
  
• Historical Textual Criticism: Includes, for example, a comparison of Brutus and Hamlet, Voltaire's comparison of Shakespeare and Corneille, and analysis by the nineteenth century critic William Hazlitt
  
• Stage History: When, how and by whom was this play performed?
  
• Other Dramatic Versions: Who else wrote plays on Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's day, and how do these plays compare?
  
• Time Analysis: What is the duration of each scene?
  
• Plan of the Work: Whose editions are collated in the Variorum edition of the First Folio?
  
• List of Books: A bibliography of pre-1913 texts used in producing the Variorum critical edition
  
• Index: With clickable links into the text