ABSTRACT
On 13 May 1999, the Globe Theatre Company, London, mounted Julius Caesar in the recently reconstructed Globe in order to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the play as well as that of the original Globe, which—as many scholars nowadays believe—opened with this very drama. 1 Directed by Mark Rylance, the production used recreated costumes of the Shakespearean era, explored original playing practices with an all-male cast, and was accompanied by live music played on Elizabethan instruments. As one critic claimed, “Caesar takes the Globe by storm” and he rated it as “the most satisfying production at the Globe to date.” 2 The final performance was given on 21 September, the date of the first recorded production of the play at Shakespeare’s Globe. 3
