Article: Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR.(Review)

The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will. [1]

Julius Caesar

Throughout Julius Caesar, Shakespeare uses the word "will" so conspicuously and so persistently that his motive for doing so is a mystery begging for solution. Since Will was his own name, some might guess he was playing a private game (as he did in sonnets 135 and 136). Others might surmise that he foresaw a time when there would be a great "Shakespeare controversy" over the "real" authorship of his works and wished to leave clues behind. Here are examples in which the word "will" is belabored:

Cassius. Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?

Casca. No, I am promised ...

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