THE NEW HUDSON SHAKESPEARE
JULIUS CÆSAR
INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
HENRY NORMAN HUDSON, LL.D.
EDITED AND REVISED BY
EBENEZER CHARLTON BLACK LL.D. (GLASGOW)
WITH THE COÖPERATION OF
ANDREW JACKSON GEORGE LITT.D. (AMHERST)
GINN AND COMPANY
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Copyright, 1908
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Transcriber's Note:
Two types of notes appear in the original book: text variants,printed immediately below the text on each page, and editor's notes, printed at the bottom of each page;both types reference the text by line number. In this HTML version, all of the notesare collected together towards the end, before the index, and instead of referencing line numbers,they are numbered sequentially. There are separate sequences for notes to the Introduction and to eachof the five Acts. Anchors in the text are hyperlinked.In some cases, the original references to text line numbers have been preserved.
A list of the abbreviations used in the notes for cited editions can be found onpage lv.
As in the original, throughout the text Cæsar is spelled with the ligature æ,except for one instance: "composition of _Julius Caesar_".
PREFACE
The text of this edition of Julius Cæsar is based upon acollation of the seventeenth century Folios, the Globe edition,and that of Delius. As compared with the text of theearlier editions of Hudson's Shakespeare, it is conservative.Exclusive of changes in spelling, punctuation, and stagedirections, very few emendations by eighteenth century andnineteenth century editors have been adopted; and these,with every variation from the First Folio, are indicated in thetextual notes. These notes are printed immediately belowthe text so that a reader or student