Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lovascio, Domenico

Titel

The Anonymous Caesar's Revenge and John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's The False One

Ist Teil von

• Notes and queries, 2015-06, Vol.62 (2), p.242-245

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford Publishing Limited (England)

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Time and again have scholars proposed the anonymous tragedy of Caesar's Revenge (written c.1595, published 1606) as the possible source of passages found in several plays by William Shakespeare, such as Richard II, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, and, obviously, Julius Caesar. However, in their painstaking -- if not always convincing -- attempts to find a link between the anonymous tragedy and the Shakespearean canon, scholars seem to have completely overlooked a far more evident connection between Caesar's Revenge and a non-Shakespearean play focusing on Julius Caesar. The first evident analogy between the two plays is that they happen to be the only two early modern English plays portraying Caesar's well-known nine-month affair with Cleopatra in Egypt in 48-47 BC, frequently overshadowed in cultural and artistic productions by her tragic love story with Mark Antony.