Series II, Podcast I: Julius Caesar
Shakespeare inherits both pro- and anti-Caesar traditions
The body of Caesar vs. the spirit of Caesar
Notes: The Sayers quotation is from notes on the major images in Canto XXXIV in Dorothy Sayers, tr., The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine, Cantica I, Hell (London: Penguin, 1949), p. 289. On the anti-Caesar position, see William Blisset, “Caesar and Satan,” Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr., 1957), pp. 221-232, accessed 11/1/18 at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2707625?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.
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