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Part 1 The building of the Globe and the Elizabethan calendarcontroversy: building Shakespeare's Globe; Julius Caesar and theElizabethan calendar controversy; calendrical markers in "JuliusCaesar"; temporal markers to mid-June 1599 in "Julius Caesar";Shakespeare's "Corpus Christi" archetypre Part 2 Endemic time confusionin "Julius Caesar": the web of Caesar's time; Shakespeare's vernalequinox gambit - "Here lies the East..."; why the "Sunne of Rome" setat three o'clock. Part 3 Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" and the moveablefeast discordnaces of 1599: the disrupted Easter cycle of 1599;Shrovetide, Saint Valentine's Eve, and the Roman Lupercal; AshWednesday, the night of the Lupercal and the eve of the Ides of March;Good Friday, the Ides of March, and the day Christ died; Shakespeare'sThird day, the Book of Samuel and the Mass of the Catechumens; HolyEaster, and Shakespeare's April Fools. Part 4 Shakespeare among theassassins: the writer who changed the world. Part 5 Evidence ofCalendrical markers in other plays of Shakespeare: prolegomenon for amode of criticism; Illyria's faulty calendar; real time in "Hamlet".