num_pages: 254
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), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Augustus, Marcus Antonius, Portia Catonis, Gaius Cassius Longinus
genres: Read For School, Historical Fiction, Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Literature, High School, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 198813
places: Philippi, Rome, Italy
publisher: Barron's Educational Series