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Chapter 1
Position of the Play Between the Histories and the Tragedies. Attraction of the Subject for Shakespeare and his Generation. Indebtedness to Plutarch.
Although Julius Caesar was first published in the Folio of 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, there is not much doubt about its approximate date of composition, which is now placed by almost all scholars near the beginning of the seventeenth century. Some of the evidence for this is partly external in character.
peare should admit the substantive and be squeamish about the adjective: in point of fact, much uglier words than either find free entry into his later plays. And one has likewise to remember that the Julius Caesar we possess was published only in 1623, and that such a change might very well have been made in any of the intervening years, even though it were written before 1600. The most then that can be established by this set of inferences, is that it was produced after Meres' Palladis Tam
M. W. MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background, Antony and Cleopatra , chapter 10 (search)
Chapter 1
Position of the Play Before the Romances.
Its Political and Artistic Aspects
Coriolanus seems to have been first published in the folio of 1623, and is one of the sixteen plays described as not formerly entered to other men.
In this dearth of information there has naturally been some debate on the date of its composition, yet the opinions of critics with few exceptions agree as to its general position and tend more and more to limit the period of uncertainty to a very few months. s for the stage, it was generally passed over.
Not universally, however. It seems already to have engaged the attention of one important dramatist in France, the prolific and gifted Alexandre Hardy. Hardy began to publish his works only in 1623, and the volume containing his Coriolan
appeared only in 1625; so there is hardly any possibility of Shakespeare's having utilised this play. And, on the other hand, it was certainly written before 1608, probably in the last years of the sixteenth