ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION JULIUS CJESAR was not published till the First Folio (1623) in which it appears with few errors or misprints. It seems to have been printed from a clean prompt-copy or a transcript made from it. T. S. Dorsch (New Arden, xxiv) suggests that the printers used 'a careful scribal copy of Shakespeare's "fine papers" which had been used as the prompt-book'. There are few textual cruces, and no clear signs of revision except in the two differing accounts of Portia's death (IV.3.I46-56 and 180-94) where Messala's relation was probably written first and Brutus' account written second to replace it but the earlier one printed by mistake as well.
