Editing Julius Caesar (play) (section)

==Date and text==
[[File:Second Folio Title Page of Julius Caesar.jpg|thumb|The first page of ''Julius Caesar'', printed in the Second Folio of 1632]]
''Julius Caesar'' was originally published in the [[First Folio]] of 1623, but a performance was mentioned by [[Thomas Platter the Younger]] in his diary in September 1599. The play is not mentioned in the list of Shakespeare's plays published by [[Francis Meres]] in 1598. Based on these two points, as well as several contemporary allusions, and the belief that the play is similar to ''[[Hamlet]]'' in vocabulary, and to ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'' and ''[[As You Like It]]'' in metre,<ref>Wells and Dobson (2001, 229).</ref> scholars have suggested 1599 as a probable date.<ref>Spevack (1988, 6), Dorsch (1955, vii–viii), Boyce (2000, 328), Wells, Dobson (2001, 229)</ref>

The text of ''Julius Caesar'' in the First Folio is the only [[authority (textual criticism)|authoritative]] text for the play. The Folio text is notable for its quality and consistency; scholars judge it to have been set into type from a theatrical prompt-book.<ref>Wells and Dobson, ''ibid''.</ref>

The play contains many [[anachronistic]] elements from the [[Elizabethan era]]. The characters mention objects such as [[Doublet (clothing)|doublets]] (large, heavy jackets) – which did not exist in ancient Rome. Caesar is mentioned to be wearing an Elizabethan doublet instead of a Roman toga. At one point a clock is heard to strike and Brutus notes it with "Count the clock".