Under the editorial supervision of LINDSAY TODD DAMON, A. B. +ADDISON-The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, GEORGE B. AITON, State Inspector of High Schools, Minnesota. +COOPER-Last of the Mohicans, EDWIN H. LEWIS, Ph. D., Lewis Institute, Chicago. 30c. 25c. 25C. 40c. 25c. 25c. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, A. M., University of Chicago. DE QUINCEY-The Flight of a Tartar Tribe, CHARLES W. FRENCH, A. M., Hyde Park High School. DRYDEN-Palamon and Arcite, MAY ESTELLE COOK, A. B., South Side Academy, Chicago. †GEORGE ELIOT- Silas Marner, ALBERT E. HANCOCK, Ph. D., Haverford College. †GOLDSMITH-The Vicar of Wakefield, EDWARD P. MORTON, A. M., The Indiana University. HAWTHORNE - The House of the Seven Gables, 25c. 30c. ROBERT HERRICK, A. B., The University of Chicago. IRVING-Tales of a Traveller and parts of The Sketch Book, 40c. GEORGE P. KRAPP, Teachers' College, New York. LOWELL-Vision of Sir Launfal. See Coleridge. *MACAULAY-Essays on Milton and Addison, ALPHONSO G. NEWCOMER, A. M., Leland Stanford Junior *MILTON L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas, FRANK E. FARLEY, Ph. D., Syracuse University. +POPE-Homer's Iliad, Books I, VI, XXII, XXIV,' WILFRED W. CRESSY, A. M., Oberlin College, and WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, A. M., The University of SCOTT-Lay of the Last Minstrel, WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, A. M., and MARY R. WILLARD, High School, Jamestown, N. Y. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, A. M., and MARY R. WILLARD. +SCOTT-Ivanhoe, WILLIAM E. SIMONDS, Ph. D., Knox College. *SHAKSPERE - Macbeth,' JOHN HENRY BOYNTON, Ph. D., Syracuse University. W. A. NEILSON, Ph. D., Harvard University. +SHAKSPERE- Merchant of Venice, ROBERT MORSS LOVETT, The University of Chicago. SHAKSPERE-Julius Caesar,. W. A. NEILSON, Ph. D., Harvard University. †TENNYSON-The Princess, 25c. *For Study and Practice. Į College Entrance Requirements in JEnglish, 1902. Others in Preparation. SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS, 378-388 WABASH AVENUE.....CHICAGO The Lake English Classics EDITED BY LINDSAY TODD DAMON, A.B. Associate Professor of English in Brown University SHAKSPERE'S JULIUS CAESAR EDITED FOR SCHOOL USE BY WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, M.A., Ph.D. HARVARD UNIVERSITY CHICAGO SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY 1901 13485.64 B HARVARD COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY TYPOGRAPHY BY MARSH, AITKEN & CURTIS COMPANY, CHICAGO PREFACE. The aim in the present volume, as in the others of the series, is to present a satisfactory text with as full an equipment of introduction and notes as is necessary for thorough intelligibility. The section of the introduction dealing with Shakspere and the drama is intended to give the student a clear idea of the place of the play in literary history. The treatment of the relation of Shakspere's Julius Caesar to North's Plutarch is an attempt to solve a difficulty which meets the editor of any of the Roman plays. A mere statement of indebtedness fails to convey a true idea of the real facts of the case; and the reprinting of the whole text of which Shakspere availed himself does not explain the situation without much detailed study. The comparative table given on pp. 40-42 tells much at a glance; and the teacher who wishes to illustrate further Shakspere's use of his material will find it easy to do so by means of the references to Skeat's Shakespeare's Plutarch, a book which every teacher of the play should have at hand. The sections on language and metre present some of the peculiarities of Shakspere's English and versification in a more systematic fashion than is possible in separate notes. |