Editing Caratacus (section)

=== In the arts ===
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[[File:William Blake Visionary Head of Caractacus -contrast increased.jpg|thumb|[[William Blake]]'s vision of Caratacus from his series of illustrations called the [[Visionary Heads]]|308x308px]]
* Caratach is anachronistically depicted as [[Boudica]]'s general in [[John Fletcher (playwright)|John Fletcher]]'s play ''[[Bonduca]]'' (1613). The historical Caratach was exiled from Britain nearly a decade prior to Boudica's war.
* Caratacus is the subject of [[William Mason (poet)|William Mason]]'s 1759 poem of the same name and the 1776 play based on it.
* Caratacus is the title character of the Italian opera ''Carattaco'' by [[Johann Christian Bach]], first performed in London in 1767
* In "[[The Major-General's Song]]", from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s 1879 comic opera "[[The Pirates of Penzance]]", Major-General Stanley claims knowledge of "every detail of Caractacus's uniform".
* "Caractacus" is the title of a [[cantata]] by [[Edward Elgar]] in 1897–98 devoted to the defeat and capture of the king by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]]. It was first performed at the [[Leeds]] choral festival in 1898.
* Caractacus is the subject of a Victorian poem called ''Caractacus the Briton'' by William Stewart Ross, published 1881 in a collection titled [https://archive.org/details/laysofromancechi00ross ''Lays of Romance and Chivalry''], and distinguished by the refrain, "Caractacus the Briton, the bravest of the brave!"
* The defeat of Caradoc (Caratacus) by the Romans is the subject of [[Henry Treece]]'s 1952 adult novel, ''The Dark Island'',  the second book in his ''Celtic Tetralogy''.  As well, a poem titled ''Caratacus'' appears in Treece's ''Exiles'', a collection of poetry published in the same year.
* Caractacus briefly appears as a minor character in the [[Robert Graves]] novel, ''[[Claudius the God]]''.  In the [[I, Claudius (TV series)|television adaptation]] of Graves's novels, he is portrayed in a brief appearance by [[Peter Bowles]].
* Caratacus' capture and life as a captive in Rome is told from the point of view of his fictional daughter, Eigon, in [[Barbara Erskine]]'s time-slip novel, ''The Warrior's Princess'', pub. 2008.
* Caratacus is a major character in [[Douglas Jackson (author)|Douglas Jackson]]'s 2008 novel ''Claudius'', the sequel to ''Caligula'' (2008).
* Caradoc is a major character in author [[Pauline Gedge]]'s 1978 novel, ''The Eagle and The Raven''.
* Caratacus appears in several volumes of [[Simon Scarrow]]'s [[Eagle series|''Eagle'' series]], including ''Under the Eagle'', ''The Eagle's Conquest'', ''When the Eagle Hunts'', ''The Eagle and the Wolves'', ''The Eagle's Prey'', ''Blood Crows'' and ''Brothers In Blood''.
* Caradoc is a main character in [[Manda Scott]]'s series "Boudica" ("Dreaming the Eagle", "Dreaming the Bull", "Dreaming the Hound", "Dreaming the Serpent-Spear").
* Caratach appears as a stage character in [[Harry Turtledove]]'s [[alternate history]] novel ''[[Ruled Britannia]]''. In this novel, a fictional version of [[William Shakespeare]] writes a play called ''Boudicca'', which is almost identical to John Fletcher's ''Bonduca''. In the book's afterword Turtledove acknowledges Fletcher's influence, but in the novel itself he mistakenly suggests that Caratach was depicted as Boudicca's man in Tacitus's ''Annals''.
* "The Court of King Caractacus" is a nonsense song by [[Rolf Harris]]. The single reached No 9 in the [[ARIA Charts|Australian Singles Chart]] in 1964.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/blogs/opinion/207188/i-Who-was-King-Caractacus-i|title=Who was King Caractacus?|date=17 February 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gkUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA33|magazine=Billboard|title=Hits of the World|volume=76 |number=28 |issn=0006-2510|date=11 July 1964|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|accessdate=10 December 2016|via=Google Books}}</ref>
* Caratacus is referenced in the [[Paradox Interactive]] video game ''[[Crusader Kings II]]'' in the form of bloodline inherited by some characters in the game, the "Bloodline of Caradog".
* ''Caradog before Caesar in Rome'' is a painting by [[Ellis Owen Ellis]] (Ellis Bryn-Coch), a Welsh portrait painter who won a number of prizes in London art galleries after moving there in 1834.<ref>{{Cite DWB|id=s-ELLI-OWE-1813|title=ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN ('Ellis Bryn-coch '; 1813 - 1861), artist|last=Davies|first=William Llewelyn}}</ref>