1. William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Context and history
Shakespeare was born and brought
up in Stratford-upon-Avon.
He began a successful career in
London as an actor, writer and part
g
owner of a playing called Lord
Chamberlain’s Men.
There were speculations about his
physical appearances, sexuality,

2. religious belief and
whether his work
attribute to him
His plays were mainly
comedies, histories
and tragedies
His work is still
relevant even in 2014
(themes).
• Taming of the Shrew
• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
•Love
• Jealousy
• Murder
• kindness

3. Julius Caesar: the
play
Julius Caesar is a highly successful but ambitious political leader
of Rome and his goal is to become an unassailable dictator.
Caesar is warned that he must "beware the Ides of March" . The
prophecy comes true and Caesar is assassinated. Marcus Brutus
is a well respected Roman senator who helps plan and carry out
Caesar's assassination which he believes will rid Rome of a
tyrant. Caesar's friend Mark Antony provides the famous funeral
oration ("Friends, Romans, and countrymen…") Brutus and
Cassius meet their inevitable defeat. Brutus, the noble Roman,
whose decision to take part in the conspiracy for the sake of
freedom, plunges his country into civil war.

4. Julius Caesar settings
are in:
Characters in the
play:
The play is
categorised as:
• Verona
• Mantua in Italy
• Julius Caesar himself
• Mark Antony
• Brutus and Cassius
• Tragedy
• Betrayal
• murder

5. The quotes from Julius Caesar are amongst
Shakespeare's most famous including 'Beware the
Ides of March' and 'Friends, Romans,
countrymen'. Details of these famous quotes
follow, complete with information regarding the
Act and the Scene, allowing a quick reference to
the section of the play that these quotations can
be found in.

6. The literary techniques
In the play Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare uses a lot of figurative languag
the play, a mentally challenged man, come to Julius’s palace to warn him abou
conspiracy against him, by his fellow countrymen, “ Beware of the Ides of Ma
That was the warning to Julius Caesar that something horrible was going to
happen to him by his loyal fellow countrymen, Brutus and Cassius. The soun
effect is the style of William writing, ", Romans, countrymen lend me your ears; I come to bury Ca
to praise him". - (Act III, Scene II).
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me".
- (Act I, Scene II).

7. Julius Caesar is a dramatization of actual
events. He was assassinated in 44 B.C.
It is believed that his mother endured
agonising surgery in order to extract him
at birth. This belief gave rise to the term
"Caesarean birth"

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