No matter how hard one tries to avoid being manipulated, it is impossible to avoid all sources such as documents, leaders and friends. Manipulation, the ability to alter the position or influence a person, occurs everywhere one goes. Throughout Julius Caesar by Shakespeare and The Life of Caes...
What is the purpose of Plutarch's Parallel Lives? In his Life of Alexander the Great, Plutarch states that his purpose in writing is "...not to write histories, but lives." Rather than write a detailed biography of each individual, Plutarch used details and anecdotes from the life of each...
Homan, SidneyShakespeare Studies (Rosemont Publishing & Printing Corporation)
I can offer no better summary of (or commentary on) the book's fourth and final chapter than Heffernan himself: "By exposing the overlooked subtextual strata that work to put forward the figuration of Caesar as godly-demonic lion, I hope to liberate Julius Caesar from its exegetic capture...
incident,' Trench has said, ' there is almost nothing which he does not owe to Plutarch, even as continually he owes the very wording to Sir Thomas North;3 and he follows up this judgment with so detailed an analysis of the Julius Caesar that I shall not attempt to labour the same ...
According to the biographers.(Julius Caesar according to Plutarch and Suetonius)(Biography)Hollingsworth, Anthony