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 history: 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: Brutus, Marcus Junius, Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Augustus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Antonius, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Portia Catonis, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar)
genres: High School, Drama, Theatre, Read For School, School, Literature, Plays, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 198942
places: Philippi, Italy, Rome
publisher: Thomson Learning