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 (Shakespeare's Globe Acting Edition)
characters: Julius Caesar (Roman emperor), Marcus Antonius, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Augustus, Calpurnia (wife of Caesar), Marcus Tullius Cicero, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Portia Catonis, Brutus, Marcus Junius
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Drama, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, High School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 198832
places: Philippi, Rome, Italy
publisher: Hyperion Books