THE

ENGLISH OF SHAKESPEARE

ILLUSTRATED IN

A Philological Commentary

ON HI8

JULIUS CAESAR.

BY

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GEORGE L. CRAIK,

PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND OF ENGLISH LITERATURE IN

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BELFAST.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND IMPROVED.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.

1859.

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CONTENTS.

Page

PROLEGOMENA.

Shakespeare's Personal History

1

Shakespeare's Works .

3

The Sources for the Text of Shakespeare's Plays 9

The Shakespearian Editors and Commentators 25

The Modern Shakespearian Texts

27

The Mechanism of English Verse, and the Prosody

of the Plays of Shakespeare

30

Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar

44

PHILOLOGICAL COMMENTARY, WITH TEXT OF THE

PLAY

61