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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 75
T2  - Review of English Studies
SP  - 403-18
ID  - bbbo12
T1  - "Friendship and the Common Good in Julius Caesar"
AU  - Cavanagh, Dermot
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2026
LA  - English
AB  - Reads Julius Caesar’s account of friendship as illumination of Shakespeare’s broader communitarian political attitudes. Argues that the quarrel and reconciliation scene between Brutus and Cassius sheds new light on Shakespeare’s response to two classical sources: Cicero’s De Amicitia and Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulius, by showing how Brutus and Cassius settle their differences while refusing to believe that the enemy is always occulted within the friend. Concludes that, while play demonstrates how friendship may become serviceable to ambitions and held in bad faith in political life, it may also promote commonalty and reconciliation, though tragedy of play lies in loss of this potential. English summary, 403.
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