Is julius caesar a trgedy or a melodrama ?t how is it either or?
Julius Caesar is a historical tragedy; it concerns noble characters, high matters, the fall of great men (in this case, all men), the fate of nations altered by the deeds of the few goliaths. It employs recognition and reversal, two classic tragic devices best exemplified in Oedipus Rex, with more than one character (I would look at both Julius in his “Et tu, Brute” as a quintessential example, however many could argue that Brutus also follows this train of self realization). It introduces the figure of the “Tiresias”-type character as a kind of chorus (good greek tragedy would require this), and it ends in death alongside the restoration of political power so anxiously included in early modern tragedy. As far as Melodrama goes, there are two traditional ways to define the genre. Under one definition, it has to do with the conflict of relatively rigid classifications of “good” and “evil”; I think that the boundary between right and wrong, just and unjust, patriot and traitor are too fr
