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A Probable Italian Source of Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar"

A Probable Italian Source of Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar"

by Alexander Boecker

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About this eBook

Author
Boecker, Alexander
Credits
Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English drama -- Italian influences
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 56256
Release Date
December 27, 2017
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A PROBABLE ITALIAN SOURCE OF SHAKESPEARE’S “JULIUS CÆSAR”
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION
  5. 5.THE PLOT OF “CESARE” — Act I — Act II — Act III — Act IV — Act V
  6. 6.THE INFLUENCE OF APPIAN
  7. 7.THE HANDLING OF THE SUPERNATURAL ELEMENT
  8. 8.THE BRUTUS-CASSIUS SCENES
  9. 9.THE CHARACTER OF CAESAR
  10. 10.BRUTUS
  11. 11.THE OTHER CHARACTERS — I — II — III — IV — V
  12. 12.“CESARE” IN ENGLAND
  13. 13.CONCLUSION
  14. 14.BIBLIOGRAPHY
  15. 15.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES — The following corrections to obvious Italian misspellings in Boecker's text made by comparing excerpts with Pescetti's original ( this copy ).

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