[Gutenberg 28334] • The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar
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- Authors
- Shakespeare, William
- Tags
- conspiracies -- drama , julius -- assassination -- drama , 85 b.c.?-42 b.c. -- drama , caesar , rome -- history -- civil war , tragedies , classics , brutus , marcus junius , assassins -- drama , 43-31 b.c. -- drama
- Date
- 1599-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.38 MB
- Lang
- en
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.