The Shake-speare tragedy of Julius Cæsar . play has beenmuch blamed. He is declared to be unlike the ideaconceived of him from his Commentaries; it is saidthat he does nothing and only utters a few pompous,thrasonical, grandiloquent words, and it has beenasked whether this be the Caesar that did awe theworld? The poet, if he intended to make the at-tempt of the republicans his main theme, could nothave ventured to create too great an interest inCaesar; it was necessary to keep him in the back-ground, and to present that view of him which gavea reason for the conspiracy. According even toPlutar
The Shake-speare tragedy of Julius Cæsar . play has beenmuch blamed. He is declared to be unlike the ideaconceived of him from his Commentaries; it is saidthat he does nothing and only utters a few pompous,thrasonical, grandiloquent words, and it has beenasked whether this be the Caesar that did awe theworld? The poet, if he intended to make the at-tempt of the republicans his main theme, could nothave ventured to create too great an interest inCaesar; it was necessary to keep him in the back-ground, and to present that view of him which gavea reason for the conspiracy. According even toPlutarch, whose biography of Caesar is acknowl-edged to be very imperfect, Caesars character 100 References. altered much for the worse shortly before his death,and Shakespeare has represented him according tothis suggestion. With what reverence Shakespeareviewed his character as a whole we learn from sev-eral passages of his works, and even in this playfrom the way in which he allows his memory tobe respected as soon as he is dead.— INDEX OF WORDS AND PHRASESEXPLAINED. Page Aeneas, descendants of, 11 affections swayed, 27 answer directly, 66 Antonius, 6 apparent prodigies. 34 at the stake, 69 ambitions ladder, 27 bad air, 18 banquetting, 9 battailes, 84 bear with me, 60 best leisure, 47 blood, circulation of, 37 brave hart. 54 Csesar, a God, 11 a tyrant. 60 coward lips of, 11 crown offered, 17 disparagement of, 11 ;; ghost of, 82 name of king, 10 religion of, 6 speeches of, 11 unassailable, 49 Calpurnia, 5 Cassius and Brutus, related, 7 from bondage, 23 Cassius day is set, 91 cautelous, 32 censvire me, 57 ceremonies, 4,34 chariot wheels, 3 cogitations, 8 colossus, 13 confidence, 41 courage, 84 dangerous, such men are 16darts envenomed, 91 Page death, 41,50 Diogenes, 69 disrobe the images, 4 dreams, 43 emulation, 45 end is known, 88 envy, of great Csesar, 97 Epicurus, 87 evil that men do, 60 fashion, 69 favour, 11 flatterers, 35 flood, 13 force, 79 gentle Brutus, heard a
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