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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
… of selected kings and magnates as ‘New Caesars’. Chapter One asks why these historians started using the term fortuna and hypothesises as to why certain of their peers did not do so. It demonstrates the post hoc ergo propter hoc patterning that links sin and specific reverses of fortune …
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Brutus' Ignoble Mind: a Cognitive Approach to the Tragedy of Julius Caesar
… Brutus of William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. An overview of the criticism of the play informs the reader of the major dissenting views about Brutus. Following this is a rational-emotive explanation, describing Brutus as incapable, because of his rigid philosophy, of clear …
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
Gaius Julius Caesar is not only the most well-known figure in Roman history, but he is also one of the most difficult to understand. Since his assassination, Caesar has played an important role in discussions of political power, imperial government, tyranny, and tyrannicide. While there have been …
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Julius Caesar And The Rhine River: The Evolution Of A Border During The Gallic Wars
… thesis descusses the use of the Rhine River by Julius Caesar in his commentaries, <em>De Bello Gallico</em>, covering the Gallic Wars of approximately 58 to 52 B.C., to identify the peoples and territories separated by its current. This thesis addresses the issue of how Caesar understood this …
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Shakespeare and superstition: A study of how shakespeare uses superstition and vision in Macbeth and Julius Caesar.
… visions in the two selected plays, Macbeth and Julius Caesar to structure his plays. The study investigated the consequences that befell the main characters for following or ignoring superstition. The two plays were selected using purposive sampling and were analysed using the content analysis …
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Julius Caesar in Medieval France: The Textual Sources and Iconography of the <i>Faits des Romains</i>
<p>The Julius Caesar of Shakespeare's day was a figure who believed that fame transcended mortality. Long after Caesar the man was dead, Caesar the legend lived on. It was a legend which in many ways was an analogue of the man. The legend maintained all of Caesar's stubborn persistence, and to some …
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Central women characters and their influence in Shakespeare, with particular reference to the Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare portrayed women in his plays as people who should be valued. This is an opinion I held in the past, and one I still hold after intense reading of his works and that of authors such as Marlowe, Webster, Thomas Kyd and others. Shakespeare created his female characters out of a mixture of …
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The Shadow of the comet : divine patronage in the rise of Augustus by Dora Y. Gao.
… a legitimate political competitor in the wake of Julius Caesar's death and his adoption in Caesar's will. With the comet as a symbol of his father's deification, Octavian's new status as divi filius portrayed him as a pious young man dedicated to the traditions of the Roman Republic and won him …
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Transcending Temporality: a Study of the Reception of Julius Caesar’s Self-representation in Epic and Drama
… and transmutation of the character of Julius Caesar from history to epic and drama. The research question is: what elements from Caesar’s self-representation, constituting themes and characterization, have been transmitted to his epic and dramatic representation?<br/>The groundwork of …
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Sir Thomas North, An Elizabethan Translator
Anyone who is familiar with Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, Pericles, or Timon of Athena has been touched by the spirit, if not the word, of Sir Thomas North. The casual student knows that North’s work was a source used in some of Shakespeare’s plays. Scholars have …
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Heroes, saints, and gods: Foundation legends and propaganda in ancient and Renaissance Rome
… of persona l propaganda. It shows that men like Julius Caesar used the supposed founders of the city to promote their own claims to power through art and architecture. It not only explains how men like Augustus would build upon this by including not only the city’s founders, but also Caesar to …
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Free Will: Orson Welles and the Remediation of American Shakespeare, 1930--1948
… on how Welles revised his Mercury stage success, Julius Caesar: Death of a Dictator, for other media, including radio and phonograph recording. Chapter Five revises previous views of Welles' most ambitious Shakespearean project, the Mercury Text Shakespeare series. Chapter Six offers a new …
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Great Men, Heroic Deeds: The Influences of the Nine Heros During the Late Middle Age
… ancient heroes: Hector, Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar. The second tapestry shows three Hebrew heroes: Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabeus. The third tapestry depicts three Christian heroes: Charlemagne, Arthur, and Godfrey of Bouillon. From the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries, these nine …
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Sol Plaatje’s Shakespeare : translation and transition to modernity
… (The Comedy Errors) and Dintshontsho Tsa Bo-Juliuse Kesara (Julius Caesar). Translation is the major concept with which I approach the Plaatje-Shakespeare relationship. Adopting the notion of translation as transformation, the thesis illustrates how Plaatje appropriated, manipulated and …
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Don't Say Gay: Love Language in Coriolanus
… also includes <em>Titus Andronicus</em>, <em>Julius Caesar</em>, and <em>Antony and Cleopatra</em>. The one element these plays have in common is the ideal Roman hero, the <em>civis romanus</em>, who meets a tragic end. These heroes are not generally considered queer as no free Roman male …
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Alchemy In Selected Plays Of Shakespeare
… in the metaphorical use of blood as tincture in Julius Caesar and Macbeth. Cordelia is related to the Paracelsian idea of balm in King Lear. Alchemical imagery associated with the processes of tincturing, surfeiting, healing, and magic is found in other selected references. Hamlet participates in …
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Republicanism and stoicism in Renaissance neo-Senecan drama.
… exemplary figures like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, and the plight of the individual in a tyrannical society, as well as their response to topical events such as the accession of James I. Such features, this study will argue, provide evidence of how this form of drama was appropriated …
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Divus Augustus Pater: Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus
… possessed the same quality (e.g. Marius, Sulla, Julius Caesar), Augustus' revolutionary measures, unlike theirs, outlived the charismatic leader. In Weberian terms, this resulted from the routinization of charisma. This dissertation examines several key issues of the development of the …
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Turgenev and the question of the Russian artist
… him to the noble Brutus in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", can be said to anticipate Turgenev's own feelings about Bazarov in "Fathers and Children" (1862) and the way that this 'nihilist' attained the stature of a true tragic hero. In this chapter, too, the clichéd notion of Turgenev's …
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