Question

Do visit your school library and read up on additional and more interesting facts about the play- Julius Caesar, and share them with your classmates.

The group of students which brings in the most authentic, added information should be felicitated in the way the teacher thinks best.

Answer 1

1. Shakespeare probably wrote Julius Caesar in 1599, and it may have been one of the first plays performed at the newly built Globe Theatre.
2. Shakespeare’s main historical source was Sir Thomas North’s English translation of Plutarch’s Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans.
3. Shakespeare used material from Plutarch’s lives of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Antony while creating the play.
4. Caesar’s assassination takes place only about halfway through the play. The remaining part shows the consequences of his death, including political conflict and civil war.
5. The play presents an important conflict between Caesar’s growing individual power and the Roman republican ideal defended by characters such as Brutus and Cassius.
6. Shakespeare also uses Roman history, omens, supernatural events, public speeches and personal relationships to make the historical story more dramatic.