A Probable Italian Source of Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar"

"A Probable Italian Source of Shakespeare's 'Julius Cæsar'" by Alexander Boecker is a study that explores the possibility that an Italian tragedy had a hand in shaping one of Shakespeare's famous plays. The work dives into Orlando Pescetti's "Cesare," a play that most experts haven't looked at closely, to see if it shares common ground with Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar." The argument is that Shakespeare might have taken ideas from Pescetti's play when he was writing his own. The book is a hunt for connections, looking at characters, the way the story unfolds, and the big ideas behind the plays. The ultimate goal is to show that Pescetti's "Cesare," which came out in 1594, could have played a part in Shakespeare's creative thinking.