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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, also known simply as Julius Caesar, is a tragedy

Shakespearean tragedy

Shakespeare wrote tragedies from the beginning of his career. One of his earliest plays was the Roman tragedy Titus Andronicus, which he followed a few years later with Romeo and Juliet. However, his most admired tragedies were written in a seven-year period between 1601 and 1608...

by William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy

Assassination of Julius Caesar

The assassination of Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy by approximately forty Roman senators who called themselves Liberators. Led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, they stabbed Julius Caesar to death in the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March 44 BC...

against
the Roman dictator

Roman dictator

In the Roman Republic, the dictator , was an extraordinary magistrate with the absolute authority to perform tasks beyond the authority of the ordinary magistrate . The office of dictator was a legal innovation originally named Magister Populi , i.e...

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

, his assassination and the defeat of the conspirators at the Battle of Philippi

Battle of Philippi

The Battle of Philippi was the final battle in the Wars of the Second Triumvirate between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian and the forces of Julius Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus in 42 BC, at Philippi in Macedonia...

. It is one of several Roman plays that Shakespeare wrote, based on true events from Roman history

History of Rome

The history of Rome spans 2,800 years of the existence of a city that grew from a small Italian village in the 9th century BC into the centre of a vast civilisation that dominated the Mediterranean region for centuries. Its political power was eventually replaced by that of peoples of mostly...

, which also include Coriolanus

Coriolanus (play)

Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus.-Characters:*Caius Martius, later surnamed Coriolanus...

and Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony...

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Although the title of the play is Julius Caesar, Caesar

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman and a distinguished writer of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the gradual transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....

is not the central character in its action; he appears in only three scenes, and is killed at the beginning of the third act.

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What does the quote mean " the fault, dear brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves

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What does this quote mean? - "As fire drives out fire, so pity, pity."

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Quotations

Beware the ides of March.

Soothsayer, scene ii

And it is very much lamented, Brutus,That you have no such mirrors as will turnYour hidden worthiness into your eye.

Cassius, scene ii

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,That you would have me seek into myselfFor that which is not in me?

Brutus, scene ii

Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Cassius, scene ii

Let me have men about me that are fat;Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights.Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Caesar, scene ii

Indeed, it is a strange disposed time:But men may construe things after their fashion,Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.

Cicero, scene iii

Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.

Caesar, scene ii

Caesar: The ides of March are come.Soothsayer: Aye, Caesar, but not gone.

Scene i

Speak, hands, for me!

Casca, scene i

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