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Originally Posted by JSWolf
When did I, Claudius become a comedy?
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Never.
Also it makes some Tragedies look like cosy romances with HEA. Well, it has Caligula* in it!
It's not a Murder Mystery either.
Though I only saw the BBC TV version. I didn't read the Robert Graves book.
Graves later was regarded as promoting a lot of his
own fiction as real folklore or history in "The White Goddess"
He's not noted for humour and his lack of accurate research is maybe more obvious today. Sadly a lot of people take "The White Goddess" seriously.
[* Many of the
allegations against Caligula are dismissed as misunderstandings, exaggeration, mockery or malicious fantasy. But not by Graves.]
You've Got mail: A RomCom like Shakespeare's Macbeth
