Part 5
F2 = Second Folio, 1632.
F3 = Third Folio, 1664.
F4 = Fourth Folio, 1685.
Ff = all the seventeenth century Folios.
Rowe = Rowe's editions, 1709, 1714.
Pope = Pope's editions, 1723, 1728.
Theobald = Theobald's editions, 1733, 1740.
Johnson = Johnson's edition, 1765.
Capell = Capell's edition, 1768.
Malone = Malone's edition, 1790.
Steevens = Steevens's edition, 1793.
Globe = Globe edition (Clark and Wright), 1864.
Clar = Clarendon Press edition (W. A. Wright), 1869.
Dyce = Dyce's (third) edition, 1875.
Delius = Delius's (fifth) edition, 1882.
Camb = Cambridge (third) edition (W. A. Wright), 1891.
Abbott = E. A. Abbott's _A Shakespearian Grammar_.
Schmidt = Schmidt's _Shakespeare Lexicon_.
Skeat = Skeat's _An Etymological Dictionary_.
Murray = _A New English Dictionary_ (_The Oxford Dictionary_).
Century = _The Century Dictionary_.
Plutarch = North's _Plutarch_, 1579.
CHRONOLOGICAL CHART
Except in the case of Shakespeare's plays (see note) the literature dates refer to first publication
-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
SHAKESPEARE
YEAR
--------------------+-----------------------------------------------
BIOGRAPHY: POEMS
PLAYS
-----+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ 1564
Birth. Baptism,
April 26,
Stratford-on-Avon
-----+--------------------
-----------------------------------------------+ 1565
Father became
alderman
-----+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ 1566
Brother Gilbert
born
-----+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ 1568
Father, as bailiff
of Stratford,
NOTE: The plays in the columns
entertained Queen's
below are arranged in the
and Earl of
probable, though purely
Worcester's actors
conjectural, order of
composition. Dates appended
-----+--------------------+ to plays are those of first + 1572
publication. Where no
date is given, the play was
-----+--------------------+ first published in the First + 1573
Folio (1623). M signifies
that the play was mentioned
-----+--------------------+ by Meres in the + 1574
Brother Richard
Palladis Tamia (1598)
born
-----+--------------------+ + 1575
-----+--------------------+ + 1576
-----+--------------------+ + 1577
Father in financial
difficulties
-----+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
-----+---------------------+-------------------+
BRITISH AND
HISTORY
YEAR
FOREIGN
AND
LITERATURE
BIOGRAPHY
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1564
Quart livre de
Michelangelo died.
Pantagruel
Calvin died.
Marlowe born.
Galileo born.
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1565
Sackville and
Philip II of Spain
Norton's Gorboduc
gave his name to
printed
Philippine Islands
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1566
Udall's Roister
Murder of Rizzio
Doister printed?
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1568
The Bishops Bible.
Mary of Scots a
La Taille's Saulle
prisoner in
Furieux. R.
England. Ascham
Grafton's
died. Coverdale
Chronicle
died. Netherlands
War of Liberation
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1572
Camoens' Os Lusiadas
Knox died. Ma.s.sacre
(The Lusiads)
of St. Bartholomew
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1573
Ta.s.so's Aminta
Ben Jonson born?
Donne born
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1574
Mirror for
Earl of Leicester's
Magistrates (third
players licensed
edition)
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1575
Gammer Gurton's
Queen Elizabeth at
Needle. Golding's
Kenilworth.
Ovid (complete)
Palissy lectured
on Natural History
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1576
The Paradise of
"The Theatre"
Dainty Devices.
opened in Finsbury
Gascoigne's Steel
Fields, London,
Gla.s.s
followed by "The
Curtain." Hans
Sachs died
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1577
Holinshed's
Drake sailed to
Chronicle
circ.u.mnavigate
globe
-----+---------------------+-------------------+
-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
SHAKESPEARE
YEAR
--------------------+-----------------------------------------------
BIOGRAPHY: POEMS
PLAYS
-----+--------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ 1579
Sister Ann died
(aged eight)
-----+--------------------+ + 1580
Brother Edmund born
-----+--------------------+ + 1581
-----+--------------------+ + 1582
Married Anne
Hathaway
-----+--------------------+ + 1583
Daughter Susanna
born
-----+--------------------+ + 1584
-----+--------------------+ + 1585
Twin children
(Hamnet, Judith)
born
-----+--------------------+ + 1586
Probably went to
London
-----+--------------------+ + 1587
-----+--------------------+ + 1588
-----+--------------------+ + 1589
COMEDIES
HISTORIES
TRAGEDIES
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1590
Love's Labour's
Lost
(M, 1598)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1591
Comedy of
1 Henry VI
Errors (M)
2 Henry VI
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
-----+---------------------+-------------------+
BRITISH AND
HISTORY
YEAR
FOREIGN
AND
LITERATURE
BIOGRAPHY
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1579
Gosson's School of
Union of Utrecht.
Abuse. North's
Ta.s.so put in
Plutarch. Lyly's
confinement at
Euphues (pt. 1).
Ferrara
Spenser's Shepherd's
Calendar
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1580
Montaigne's Essais
Brown founded
(first edition)
Separatists.
Camoens died
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1581
Ta.s.so's Gerusalemme
Dutch Declaration
Liberata
of Independence
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1582
The Rheims New
Accademia della
Testament
Crusca founded
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1583
Garnier's Les Juives
Sir Humphrey
Gilbert drowned
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1584
Lyly's Campaspe.
William the Silent
Peele's Arraignment
a.s.sa.s.sinated. Ivan
of Paris
the Terrible died
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1585
Guarini's Pastor Fido
Ronsard died
(1590)
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1586
Camden's Britannia
Sir Philip Sidney
killed
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1587
Hakluyt's Four
Execution of Mary
Voyages. Faustbuch
of Scots
(Spiess, Frankfort)
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1588
Martin Marprelate:
Defeat of Spanish
The Epistle
Armada
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1589
Puttenham's Art of
Henry of Navarre,
English Poesie
King of France.
Palissy died in
Bastille
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1590
Marlowe's Tamburlaine
Battle of Ivry
Spenser's Faerie
Queene, I-III.
Lodge's Rosalynde.
Sidney's Arcadia
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1591
Sidney's Astrophel
Herrick born
and Stella.
Harington's tr. of
Orlando Furioso
-----+---------------------+-------------------+
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SHAKESPEARE
YEAR
--------------------+-----------------------------------------------
BIOGRAPHY: POEMS
PLAYS (see note above)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1592
Greene's attack in
Two Gentlemen
Richard III
Romeo and
Groatsworth of Wit
of Verona (M)
(M, 1597).
Juliet (M,
3 Henry VI
1597)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1593
Venus and Adonis
King John (M).
t.i.tus
(seven editions,
Richard II (M,
Andronicus
1594-1616)
1597)
(M, 1594)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1594
Lucrece (five
A Midsummer
editions,
Night's Dream
1594-1616)
(M, 1600)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1595
Valuable
All's Well
contemporary
that Ends
references to
Well. Taming
Shakespeare
of the Shrew
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1596
Son Hamnet died.
1 Henry IV (M,
Family applied for
1598). 2 Henry
coat-of-arms
IV (1600)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1597
Purchased New Place,
Merry Wives of
Stratford
Windsor.
Merchant of
Venice
(M, 1600)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1598
Shakespeare acted
Much Ado About
Henry V (1600)
in Jonson's Every
Nothing (1600)
Man in His Humour
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1599
Part proprietor of
As You Like It
Globe Theatre.
Coat-of-arms
granted. The
Pa.s.sionate Pilgrim
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1600
Won a London
Twelfth Night
lawsuit
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
-----+---------------------+--------------------+
BRITISH AND
HISTORY
YEAR
FOREIGN
AND
LITERATURE
BIOGRAPHY
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1592
Daniel's Delia.
Greene died.
Lyly's Gallathea
Montaigne died.
(Galatea)
London theatres
closed through
plague
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1593
Peele's Edward I.
Marlowe died.
Barnes's Sonnets
Herbert born.
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1594
Rinuccini's Dafne.
Palestrina
Satire Menipee
("Princeps
Musicae") died
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1595
Peele's Old Wives'
Ta.s.so died. Sir
Tale. Spenser's
Walter Raleigh's
Epithalamion
expedition to
Guiana. Sir J.
Hawkins died
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1596
Drayton's
Burbage built
Mortimeriados.
Blackfriar's
Faerie Queene,
Theatre. Descartes
Books IV-VI
born. Sir F. Drake
died
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1597
Bacon's Essays
The Tyrone
(first edition).
rebellion
Hall's
Virgidemiarum
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1598
Mere's Palladis
Peele died. Edict
Tamia. Chapman's
of Nantes
Homer (pt. 1). Lope
de Vega's Arcadia
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1599
Aleman's Guzman de
Spenser died. Globe
Alfarache. Peele's
Theatre built.
David and Bethsabe
Oliver Cromwell
born
-----+---------------------+--------------------+ 1600
England's Helicon
Calderon born.
Bruno died
-----+---------------------+--------------------+
-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
SHAKESPEARE
YEAR
--------------------+-----------------------------------------------
BIOGRAPHY: POEMS
PLAYS (see note above)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1601
Father died. The
Julius Caesar
Phoenix and Turtle
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1602
Purchased more
Hamlet (1603)
Stratford real
estate
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1603
His company acted
Troilus and
before the Queen
Cressida
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1604
Sued Rogers at
Measure for
Oth.e.l.lo
Stratford
Measure
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1605
G.o.dfather to
Macbeth
William D'Avenant
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1606
King Lear given
King Lear
before Court
(1608)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1607
Daughter Susanna
Timon of
married Dr. Hall
Athens
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1608
Birth of
Pericles (1609)
Antony and
granddaughter
Cleopatra
Elizabeth Hall.
Death of mother
(Mary Arden)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1609
Sonnets. A Lover's
Coriola.n.u.s
Complaint
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1610
Purchased more real
Cymbeline
estate
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1611
Subscribed for
Winter's Tale
better highways
The Tempest
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1613
Invested in London
Henry VIII
house property.
Brother Richard
died
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+ 1616
Made his will.
Daughter Judith
married Thomas
Quiney. Died April
23 (May 3, New
Style)
-----+--------------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+
-----+---------------------+-------------------+
BRITISH AND
HISTORY
YEAR
FOREIGN
AND
LITERATURE
BIOGRAPHY
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1601
Jonson's Poetaster
The Ess.e.x plot.
Rivalry between
London adult and
boy actors
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1602
Dekker's Satiromastix
Bodleian Library
founded
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1603
Jonson's Seja.n.u.s
Queen Elizabeth
died. Millenary
Pet.i.tion
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1604
Marlowe's Faustus
Hampton Court
(1588-1589)
Conference
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1605
Don Quixote (pt. 1)
Gunpowder plot.
Sir Thomas Browne
born
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1606
Chapman's Monsieur
Lyly died.
D'Olive
Corneille born
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1607
Dekker and Webster's
Settlement of
Westward Ho!
Jamestown
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1608
Captain John Smith's
Milton born.
A True Relation.
Quebec founded
Middleton's A Mad
World
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1609
The Douai Old
Separatists
Testament
(Pilgrims) in
Leyden
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1610
Strachey's Wracke
Henry IV (Navarre)
and Redemption
a.s.sa.s.sinated
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1611
King James Bible
Gustavus Adolphus,
(A.V.). Bellarmine's
King of Sweden
Puissance du Pape
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1613
Drayton's Polyolbion
Globe Theatre
burned
-----+---------------------+-------------------+ 1616
Captain John Smith's
Cervantes died.
New England. Folio
Beaumont died.
edition of Jonson's
Baffin explores
Poems. D'Aubigne's
Baffin's Bay.
Les Tragiques
Harvey lectured
(1577)
on the circulation
of the blood
-----+---------------------+-------------------+
DISTRIBUTION OF CHARACTERS
In this a.n.a.lysis are shown the acts and scenes in which the characters (see Dramatis Personae, page 2) appear, with the number of speeches and lines given to each.
NOTE. Parts of lines are counted as whole lines.
==============+=========+==========+========+
NO. OF
NO. OF
SPEECHES
LINES
--------------+---------+----------+--------+ CaeSAR
I, ii
14
39
II, ii
16
72
III, i
10
39
===
===
40
150
OCTAVIUS
IV, i
6
12
V, i
9
25
V, v
4
10
===
===
19
47
ANTONY
I, ii
4
6
II, ii
1
1
III, i
10
98
III, ii
20
147
IV, i
5
38
V, i
8
22
V, iv
2
8
V, v
1
8
===
===
51
328
LEPIDUS
IV, i
3
4
CICERO
I, iii
4
9
PUBLIUS
II, ii
1
1
III, i
1
1
===
===
2
2
POPILIUS
III, i
2
2
BRUTUS
I, ii
22
73
II, i
35
182
II, ii
2
3
III, i
23
78
III, ii
5
49
IV, ii
10
34
IV, iii
69
204
V, i
11
33
V, ii
1
6
V, iii
4
18
V, iv
1
1
V, v
10
39
===
===
193
720
Ca.s.sIUS
I, ii
24
143
I, iii
15
119
II, i
14
37
III, i
18
44
IV, ii
4
7
IV, iii
46
98
V, i
11
49
V, iii
6
32
===
===
138
529
CASCA
I, ii
19
60
I, iii
14
57
II, i
4
10
III, i
3
4
===
===
40
131
TREBONIUS
II, i
2
3
II, ii
1
2
III, i
1
3
===
===
4
8
LIGARIUS
II, i
5
15
DECIUS
II, i
3
12
II, ii
4
25
III, i
5
7
===
===
12
44
METELLUS
II, i
2
9
III, i
3
8
===
===
5
17
CINNA
I, iii
4
9
II, i
3
4
III, i
4
5
===
===
11
18
FLAVIUS
I, i
6
27
MARULLUS
I, i
5
32
ARTEMIDORUS
II, iii
1
14
III, i
3
4
===
===
4
18
SOOTHSAYER
I, ii
3
3
II, iv
5
14
III, i
1
1
===
===
9
18
CINNA, A POET
III, iii
8
14
ANOTHER POET
IV, iii
3
7
LUCILIUS
IV, ii
4
10
IV, iii
1
1
V, i
1
1
V, iv
3
14
V, v
1
2
===
===
10
28
t.i.tINIUS
IV, iii
1
1
V, iii
9
31
===
===
10
32
MESSALA
IV, iii
9
14
V, i
2
2
V, iii
7
19
V, v
3
4
===
===
21
39
CATO
V, iii
2
3
V, iv
1
5
===
===
3
8
VOLUMNIUS
V, v
3
3
VARRO
IV, iii
6
6
c.l.i.tUS
V, v
8
10
CLAUDIUS
IV, iii
4
4
STRATO
V, v
4
6
LUCIUS
II, i
10
17
II, iv
4
6
IV, iii
10
10
===
===
24
33
DARDANIUS
V, v
3
3
PINDARUS
IV, ii
1
3
V, iii
4
13
===
===
5
16
CALPURNIA
I, ii
1
1
II, ii
5
26
===
===
6
27
PORTIA
II, i
6
62
II, iv
10
30
===
===
16
92
CARPENTER
I, i
1
1
COBBLER
I, i
6
17
SERVANT
II, ii
3
5
SERVANT
III, i
2
16
SERVANT
III, i
3
5
GHOST
IV, iii
3
3
CITIZENS (ALL)
III, ii
13
14
1 CITIZEN
III, ii
14
17
III, iii
4
4
===
===
18
21
2 CITIZEN
III, ii
14
16
III, iii
4
6
===
===
18
22
3 CITIZEN
III, ii
12
16
III, iii
4
7
===
===
16
23
4 CITIZEN
III, ii
11
14
III, iii
5
7
===
===
16
21
SERVANT
III, ii
3
4
1 SOLDIER
IV, ii
1
1
V, iv
3
4
===
===
4
5
2 SOLDIER
IV, ii
1
1
V, iv
1
1
===
===
2
2
3 SOLDIER
IV, ii
1
1
MESSENGER
V, i
1
4
==============+=========+==========+========+
JULIUS CaeSAR
[Page 2]
DRAMATIS PERSONae[1]
JULIUS CaeSAR.
OCTAVIUS CaeSAR, } triumvirs after MARCUS ANTONIUS,[2] } the death of M. aeMILIUS LEPIDUS, } Julius Caesar.
CICERO, } PUBLIUS, } senators.
POPILIUS LENA, }
MARCUS BRUTUS, } Ca.s.sIUS, } CASCA, } conspirators TREBONIUS, } against LIGARIUS, } Julius Caesar.
DECIUS BRUTUS,[3] } METELLUS CIMBER, } CINNA, }
FLAVIUS and MARULLUS,[4] tribunes.
ARTEMIDORUS of Cnidos, a teacher of Rhetoric.[5]
A Soothsayer.
CINNA, a poet. Another Poet.
LUCILIUS, } t.i.tINIUS, } MESSALA, } friends to Brutus Young CATO, } and Ca.s.sius.
VOLUMNIUS, }
VARRO, } c.l.i.tUS, } CLAUDIUS, } servants to STRATO, } Brutus.
LUCIUS, } DARDANIUS, }
PINDARUS, servant to Ca.s.sius.
CALPURNIA,[6] wife to Caesar.
PORTIA, wife to Brutus.
Senators, Commoners, Guards, Attendants, &c.
SCENE: _Rome; the neighborhood of Sardis; the neighborhood of Philippi._
