BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY. DR. FURNESS and his son have not yet included "Julius Caesar" in their Variorum edition of the plays. The edition by Dr. Homer B. Sprague contains, in very condensed form, notes by many commentators. Other editions of special value are: the Clarendon, edited by William Aldis Wright; the Pitt, edited by A. W. Verity; and the edition of William J. Rolfe. If one can have but one general work on Shakspere it should be either Edward Dowden's Shakspere: His Mind and Art or Barrett Wendell's William Shakspere. Both Dowden and Wendell discuss at some length the structure, motives, and characters of "Julius Caesar"; these are also very suggestively treated in a chapter in Ulrici's Shakspeare's Dramatic Art, vol. ii. Professor Dowden's Shakspere Primer is an admirable little work. Schmidt's Shakespeare-Lexicon and E. A. Abbott's Shakespearian Grammar are standard authorities; the latter includes a full discussion of Shakspere's prosody. Craig's English of Shakespeare is a verbal study of "Julius Caesar." William Shakespeare: Poet, Dramatist and Man, by Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie, is a delightful and helpful study of the poet's life and times, and of his art as related to these. |