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Im doing a reseach paper on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is it historically accurate. What books or website should i use on this research?
 
 
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Here is a site which if you for search Julius Caesar will bring up some primary sources for you to compare with Shakespeare. I think he based it on Plutarch wrtings of the man so depending on how accurate Plutarch was...also Shakespeare changed some dates (date of Brutes etc fleeing from city..etc) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
 
Just a small note doesn't he say at one point there is a striking of the clock? eeek no clocks?
 
So to recap I would read some Plutarch on the subject and see where Shakespeare deviates. Also the works of JC himself and Suetonious etc can be found @ the above link, they would be useful starting points.
 
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Originally posted by Sunnywootxp

Im doing a reseach paper on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is it historically accurate. What books or website should i use on this research?
 


Historically accurate?  No.  Shakespeare was a dramatist, not a historian.  Besides, he went by the "history books" of his day. 

In the West, history was always seen thru the prism of nationalism until the 1960's.  This is definitely still true in Asia. Cry
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