Julius Caesar Zander, Horst
2005, 20050705, 2004, 2005-07-05, Letnik:
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This book explores traditional approaches to the play, which includes an examination of the play in light of current history, in the context of Renaissance England, and in relation to Shakespeare's ...other Roman plays as well as structural examination of plot, language, character, and source material. Julius Caesar: Critical Essays also examines the current debates concerning the play in Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, queer, and gender contexts.
•We shed new light on the authenticity of the writings of Julius Caesar.•Hirtius, one of Caesar’s generals, must have contributed to Caesar’s writings.•We benchmark two authorship verification ...systems on publicly available data sets.•We test on both modern data sets, and Latin texts from Antiquity.•We show how computational methods inform traditional authentication studies.
In this paper, we shed new light on the authenticity of the Corpus Caesarianum, a group of five commentaries describing the campaigns of Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), the founder of the Roman empire. While Caesar himself has authored at least part of these commentaries, the authorship of the rest of the texts remains a puzzle that has persisted for nineteen centuries. In particular, the role of Caesar’s general Aulus Hirtius, who has claimed a role in shaping the corpus, has remained in contention. Determining the authorship of documents is an increasingly important authentication problem in information and computer science, with valuable applications, ranging from the domain of art history to counter-terrorism research. We describe two state-of-the-art authorship verification systems and benchmark them on 6 present-day evaluation corpora, as well as a Latin benchmark dataset. Regarding Caesar’s writings, our analyses allow us to establish that Hirtius’s claims to part of the corpus must be considered legitimate. We thus demonstrate how computational methods constitute a valuable methodological complement to traditional, expert-based approaches to document authentication.
The extant life of Julius Caesar by Suetonius begins with the dictator Sulla predicting that Caesar will destroy the Optimates, i.e., undo all that Sulla himself had achieved. In presenting Sulla’s ...forecast Suetonius uniquely in examples of divinatory material in the Lives appears to be ambiguous as to its divinatory status. This paper examines how Suetonius secures credibility for this piece of ‘prophecy’ and considers the role of Sulla’s words in the economy of the Life.
Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was ...unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. Garry Wills, focusing his attention onJulius Caesar, here demonstrates how Shakespeare so wonderfully made these ancient devices vivid, giving his characters their own personal styles of Roman speech.
In four chapters, devoted to four of the play's main characters, Wills shows how Caesar, Brutus, Antony, and Cassius each has his own take on the rhetorical ornaments that Elizabethans learned in school. Shakespeare also makes Rome present and animate by casting his troupe of experienced players to make their strengths shine through the historical facts that Plutarch supplied him with. The result is that the Rome English-speaking people carry about in their minds is the Rome that Shakespeare created for them. And that is even true, Wills affirms, for today's classical scholars with access to the original Roman sources.
This article explores the re-configuration of theatre space in the intermedial spatial practice of National Theatre Live, with a case study of the broadcast of Julius Caesar from the Bridge Theatre ...in 2018. Apart from the notion of simultaneous time, I identify space as another key theme in NT Live's curation of a theatrical experience. Built mainly on the theories of Michel de Certeau and Sarah Bay-Cheng, I consider space as a dramaturgical component with socio-cultural impacts to propose seeing NT Live's intermedial dramaturgy as telling spatial stories. This comprises strategies of framing the theatre space as culturally distinctive and relational, and working through a series of carefully designed process of fragmentating and sequencing theatre and film/ed spaces. The analysis of NT Live's spatial practice of Julius Caesar engages with the idea of spatial stories to demonstrate the institutional agenda to tell a narratable spatial story. It links the intermedial spatial practice to the spatialised politics and intervenes in the agency of spectatorship. This method to study theatre broadcasts challenges the neutrality of the NT Live's promise of delivering the 'best seats in the house', and calls further attention to the transformation of mediatised theatre in a changing context.
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