... ; "shelter[ing] my own daring under the cannon of the brightest genius in the country" (Walpole 13), the extent to which the Gothic sensibility informs so many of Shakespeare's plays has only recently been conceded by many mainstream scholars. This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entrance onto the literary stage in mid eighteenth century England, which was dominated ... one thing being another and the sacrifice of youth and beauty make us cringe. It is terrible beauty at its most brilliant. Julius Caesar is full of cryptic omens and dreams that foreshadow doom. Calpurni...

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