Note 125 — THE OTHER CHARACTERS
Reading edition
Marcus Brutus, p. 116. Skeat.
In the “Julius Caesar” of Sir William Alexander, (Earl of Stirling) written a few years after Shakespeare’s play, there is a decided similarity between some portions of the Brutus-Portia scenes and those in Pescetti. The prologue seems an echo of Pescetti’s. Nor do these portions have anything verbally in common with Seneca, the model of both tragedies. See Conclusion, page 121.