Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Erasmus's De Copia, and sentential ambiguity.

Comparative Drama | March 22, 2007| | Copyright

In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, immediately after the assassination, Brutus and Cassius make the following metadramatic allusion:

Caesar: How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown!

Brutus: How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport, That now on Pompey's basis lies along, No worthier than the dust!

Caesar: So oft as that shall be, So often shall the knot of us be call'd The men that gave their country liberty. (1)

The irony of this passage operates on several levels. There is the ...

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