The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare In 1598, Francis Meres described Shakespeare as “the most excellent in both sides - comedy and tragedy”. His comedies are unsurpassed for the marvellous harmony they establish among so many apparently discordant elements. His tragedies, rightly interpreted, do not reveal a spirit of gloom and disillusionment. Yet, if we ponder carefully, while the themes of Shakespeare’s tragedies are indeed dark and dismal, the message that they impart is …showed first 75 words of 752 total…

…showed last 75 words of 752 total…speech in order to imply that, by murdering Caesar, Brutus acted like a brute), between words and signs as containers of meanings. Shakespeare’s preoccupation with language was not confined to words as rhetorical ornaments of thought but, rather, reflects the belief in the magic of language that thrives on an inter-referentiality among words, concepts, and things (the word “Brutus”, the concept of brutishness, and the brutish thing that Brutus did, i.e. Caesar assassination).