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My paper argues that analyzing the characters of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka (Zulu) in terms of the interrelationships of each character’s secret self, private self, and public self offers a more plausible account of the nature and ends of each character’s ambition and leadership style: in the case of Caesar as a democratic dictator and in the case of Chaka as a demonic dictator.
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Okhamafe, I. (2009). Historical Fabulation as History by Other Means: Shakespeare’s Caesar and Mofolo’s Chaka as Opposites in Rubiconesque Leadership. In: Existence, Historical Fabulation, Destiny. Analecta Husserliana, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9802-4_5
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