Abstract
It is the Lupercal, the festival held on 15 February to honour Lupercus, god of flocks and herds, which Shakespeare combines with the triumph granted to Caesar in the previous October to celebrate his victory over Pompey’s sons (see p. 4). The tribunes Marullus and Flavius rebuke a group of commoners for going to the triumph, and leave to do what they can to lessen the honours paid to Caesar by driving the crowds from the streets and removing the decorations from his statues.
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© 1986 David Elloway
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Elloway, D. (1986). Summary And Critical Commentary. In: Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Macmillan Master Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08215-5_2
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