[Gutenberg 15847] • Jules César

[Gutenberg 15847] • Jules César

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.