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Ambivalence in literature is a much cherished modern virtue, but many of the ambiguities of Julius Caesar Shakespeare inherited from his classical and Renaissance sources. There was no single tradition of interpreting the events leading up to and following the assassination of Caesar, no one orthodox evaluation, moral or political. Scholars have documented in detail the varying attitude towards Caesar himself, Brutus, Cassius and the rest of the conspirators.
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Grene, N. (1992). Julius Caesar. In: Shakespeare’s Tragic Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379190_2
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