 "Julius Caesar" was originally published in the First Folio of 1623, but a performance was mentioned by Thomas Platter the Younger in his diary in September 1599.The play is not mentioned in the list of Shakespeare's plays published by Francis Meres in 1598.Based on these two points, as well as a number of contemporary allusions, and the belief that the play is similar to "Hamlet" in vocabulary, and to "Henry V" and "As You Like It" in metre, scholars have suggested 1599 as a probable date.