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Shakespeare of Stratford IV. Julius Cæsar, 1599, 1601.

(A) From the manuscript diary of Thomas Platter, a Swiss visitor to London in 1599.

On Sept. 21 after lunch, at about two o’clock, I went with my company across the water [River Thames, and there] saw in the straw-thatched house [the Globe] ''the tragedy of the first emperor, Julius Cesar, quite excellently acted by about fifteen persons. At the end of the comedy they danced according to their custom perfectly beautifully, two dressed in men’s and two in women’s clothes And so every day at two o’clock in the afternoon in the city of London two, sometimes even three, comedies are performed at different places  then those who perform best, they have the most auditors. The places are built in such a way that they play on a raised platform, and every one can well see all.''

(B) From John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs, 1601.