Julius CaesarBased on Plutarch's account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony, Julius Caesar was the first of Shakespeare's Roman history plays. Presented for the first time in 1599, the play reveals the great dramatist's consummate ability to explore and express the most profound human emotions and instincts. So clearly and urgently does it impact its insights into history and human behavior, Julius Caesar is traditionally among the first of Shakespeare's plays to be studied at the secondary-school level. |
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... Roman statesman , general and author Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. , and the subsequent defeat of the conspirators on the battlefield at Philippi , Macedonia , in 42 B.C. , Shakespeare relies upon Sir Thomas North's Lives of the noble ...
... Roman statesman, general and author Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., and the subsequent defeat of the conspirators on the battlefield at Philippi, Macedonia, in 42 B.C., Shakespeare relies upon Sir Thomas North's Lives of the noble Grecians ...
... Roman calendar . 5. dreamer ) visionary . 6. gamesome ) sportive . 7. quick spirit ] high spirit , liveliness . 8. You bear ... a hand Over ] The metaphor is from a horseman's domineering treatment of his steed . 21. hearts of ...
... Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books , Alas , it cried , " Give me some drink , Titinius , As a sick girl . Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper24 should So get the start of 25 the majestic world And ...
... commonly pronounced like “ room . ” 28. Brutus ] Lucius Junius Brutus , the legendary founder of the Roman Republic , 509 B.C. 29. aim inkling . 30. chew ) reflect . And he will , after his sour fashion , tell 8 William Shakespeare.