description: Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive.
language: English
title: Julius Caesar
titlecomplete: Julius Caesar
characters: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), Marcus Antonius, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Brutus, Marcus Junius, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Portia Catonis, Augustus
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Read For School, Historical Fiction, High School, Literature, School
ratings_count: 198816
places: Rome, Italy, Philippi
publisher: Pocket books