Title page from The Life and Death of Julius Caesar (facs. 1st Folio 1623)

Part of: Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (facs. 1st Folio 1623) The Life and Death of Julius Caesar (facs. 1st Folio 1623)

Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is the best known and most widely read of his Roman plays. Its portraits of ambition, loyalty, and treachery remain evergreen. The funeral orations by Brutus and Mark Antony remain some of Shakespeare’s greatest poetry, and present a study in contrasting rhetoric for the reader. This is a facsimile edition of the play from the First Folio edition of 1623. This is a facsimile edition of the play from the First Folio edition of 1623.