ABSTRACT
Julius C(1Jsar single impressive historical situation' (MacCallum). Along with other Senecan dramas, it directly influenced the rise of Senecanism in France and England through the coteries linking Buchanan, Muret and Garnier in France, and the Pembroke circle in England.1 In France the Cresar story inspired the Latin Julius Cesar of M. A. Muret (1544), Montaigne's tutor, a short piece of 600 lines which laid down a pattern of construction to be followed by many successors.
