Preface and acknowledgements 1 INTRODUCTION: creation of the character 'Cicero' 2 BASIS: Cicero's life and works 2.1 Key details and ancient sources 2.2 Early modern editions and historical works 3 CONTEXT: 'Cicero' as a character in literature and art 4 'CICERO' ON THE (THEATRE) STAGE 4.1 Robert Garnier, Cornelie (1574) 4.2 Stephen Gosson, Catiline's Conspiracies (c. 1579) 4.3 Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin, Iulius redivivus (1585) 4.4 Robert Wilson / Henry Chettle, Catiline's Conspiracy (1598) 4.5 William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599) 4.6 The Tragedie of Caesar and Pompey or Caesars Reuenge (1606/07) 4.7 William Alexander, The Tragedy of Iulius Caesar (1607) 4.8 Everie Woman in Her Humor (1609) 4.9 Ben Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy (1611) 4.10 Caspar Brulow, Caius Julius Caesar Tragoedia (1616) 4.11 Cicero Triumphans (1619) 4.12 Marten Frank Besteben, De 't samensweringe Catalinae (1647) 4.13 The Tragedy of that Famous Roman Orator Marcus Tullius Cicero (1651) 4.14 Lambert van den Bosch, L. Catilina (1669) 4.15 Pier Jacopo Martello, Il M. Tullio Cicerone (c. 1713) 4.16 Die Enthaubttung dess Weltberuhmten Wohlredners Ciceronis (1724) 4.17.a/b 'Marcus Tullius Cicero' (1732 / 1741) 4.18 Simon-Joseph Pellegrin, Catilina (1742) 4.19 M. T. Cicero, Pro Patria Exul (1748) 4.20 Prosper Jolyot Crebillon, Catilina (1748) 4.21 Catilina ambitionis victima (1749) 4.22 Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, Catilina (1749) 4.23 Voltaire, Rome sauvee, ou Catilina (1752) 4.24 Giovanni Battista Casti, Catilina (1752) 4.25 Pietro Chiari, Marco Tullio Cicerone (1752) 4.26 Prosper Jolyot Crebillon, Le Triumvirat ou La mort de Ciceron (1754) 4.27 M. T. Cicero Exul Spontaneus (1755) 4.28 M. T. Cicero Amore Reipublicae Exul Spontaneus (1761) 4.29 Richard Cumberland, The Banishment of Cicero (1761) 4.30 M. T. Cicero ab exilio redux (1763) 4.31 Johann Jakob Bodmer, Julius Caesar. Ein Trauerspiel (1763) 4.32 Johann Jakob Bodmer, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Ein Trauerspiel (1764) 4.33 Karl Benjamin Stieff, Catilina (1782) 4.34 Vittorio Alfieri, Bruto secondo (1789) 4.35 Karl August Pergler von Perglas, Catilina (1808) 4.36 George Croly, Catiline (1822) 4.37 Christoph Kuffner, Catilina (1825) 4.38 Pierre Jean-Baptiste Dalban, Catilina (1827) 4.39 Author of 'The Indian Merchant', Catiline (1833) 4.40 John Edmund Reade, Catiline; or, The Roman Conspiracy (1839) 4.41 C.E. Guichard, Catilina romantique (1844) 4.42 Henry Bliss, Cicero, A drama (1847) 4.43 Alexandre Dumas / Auguste Maquet, Catilina (1848) 4.44 Ferdinand Kurnberger, Catilina (1855) 4.45 Karl Schroeder, Die Verschwoerung des Catilina (1855) 4.46 Jose Maria Diaz, Catilina (1856) 4.47 Vitezslav Halek, Sergius Catilina (1862) 4.48 Hermann Lingg, Catilina (1864) 4.49 Parmenio Bettoli, Catilina (1872/75) 4.50 Johann Poehnl, Catilina (1877) 4.51 Vincenzo Molinari, Lucio Sergio Catilina (1878) 4.52 Francesco Paolo de Chiara, Catilina (1882) 4.53 Karl (August) Bleibtreu, Groessenwahn: Catilina (1888) 4.54 Adolf Bartels, Catilina (1892) 4.55 Carl Theodor Curti, Catilina (1892) 4.56 Mariano Vittori, Lucio Sergio Catilina (1894) 4.57 Samuel Lublinski, Der Imperator (1901) 4.58 Alwyn Markolf, Catilina (1907) 4.59 Andre Lebey, Catilina (1922) 4.60 Upton Sinclair, Cicero. A Tragedy of Ancient Rome (1960) 4.61 Guido Ammirata, Quattro assassini per una cerva (1972/73) 4.62 Helmut Boettiger, Cicero oder Ein Volk gibt sich auf (1990) 4.63 Robert Harris / Mike Poulton, Imperium (2017) 5 CONCLUSION: development of the character 'Cicero' Bibliography Index