ABSTRACT
There are no characters of our immortal Shakespeare in which dramatic excellence and historical truth are more powerfully combined than in those which constitute his play of Julius Cæsar. This drama is remarkable for containing a greater variety of beautiful sentiments than any composition that ever came from the pen of man; and that frigid critic will deservedly meet our indignation who, upon hearing it read or seeing it exhibited, shall be so little transported with its excellence as to remind us that it is deficient in the unities of time and place.
