The story of Julius Caesar's assassination has been told both historically and fictionally. ... William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar adds certain details and dramatic elements to make the story more interesting and to make the play more enjoyable. Historical sources such as Fuller's Caesar and Blooms Julius Caesar present a more accurate account of the events that occurred on and around the Ides of March (Bloom 82-97). ... In all of the accounts the conspirators were hunted down and killed, thus avenging the murder of Julius Caesar. When Shakespeare presented the story of Julius...

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William Shakespeare wrote many plays that contain signs of superstition. Some of his best work was displayed in the popular play "Julius Caesar". ... There were many other paranormal events that occurred in Julius Caesar. ... For example, "O Julius Caesar, thow art mighty yet, thy spirit wakes aboard and turns our swords in our own poper entrails." ... This is because that Shakespeare wanted his readers to know what was going on before it actually happen. ...

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Julius Caesar , one of William Shakespeare's finest plays , does not have Julius Caesar as its main subject but rather the relationship between two friends as one of its main themes .Marcus Brutus and Cauis Cassius ,probably the most important characters in the play are very close friends and yet so different in character . ... He is Julius Caesar's best friend and loves him dearly . ... In Julius Caesar's eyes he is someon...

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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is one of the most famous plays ever. ... Julius Caesar is the character on which the story is based on. ... Meanwhile, Cassius has been trying to convince Brutus of joining the conspiracy against Julius Caesar. ... Julius Caesar is the protagonist, even though he was murdered halfway through the play. ... Julius Caesar was a true friend of Brutus, which is proven when Brutus stabs him, and Caesar looks at him saying: "Et tu, Brute!"...

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Thesis: Julius Caesar In act three, scene two, of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" the indignant people of Rome want to know why Caesar has been killed. Marcus Brutus has just given the people a legitimate excuse for his murder indignant, but, as it is clearly shown in "Julius Caesar," it is always not the man who has the most valid point that people believe, but he man that is more convincing. ... In the opening section of his funeral oration for Julius Caesar, Mark Antony quickly moves the hostile crowd from believing that they are well rid of Caesar to questioning the assassination....

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In the play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Brutus and Cassius are opposites or foils to one another because Brutus is noble while Cassius is manipulative, Brutus is concerned only for the good of Rome while Cassius is concerned only for himself and while Brutus is naive, Cassius never trusts people. Throughout Shakespeare's play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus and Cassius are shown to be foils to one another when Brutus is displayed as noble, while Cassius is displayed as manipulative. ... The last instances where Brutus and Cassius are shown to be foil...

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"Shakespeare wrote his first play in 1592. ... These two men later published the first complete edition of Shakespeare's play, after Shakespeare's death (Timeline). ... After many comedies, Shakespeare wrote the Roman tragedy Julius Caesar. Although many stories had been done about Caesar, and the story was a legend in England, Shakespeare's version surprised many people by its originality (Timeline). The play centers on Marcus Brutus, Caesar's friend, who eventually kills Caesar. ...

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Antony and Cleopatra is a historical play by William Shakespeare first performed in 1607 or 1608 and first printed in 1623. ... Shakespeare worked closely from this work and astonishing numbers of phrases within Shakespeare's play are taken directly Thomas North's translation of the prose. ... Shakespeare used Roman Empire as the setting of the play. ... Antony is now much older than he was in the period of Julius Caesar and although he was a good politician and an experienced commander, his qualifications seem to vanish now. ... After Antony's death, Caesar takes Cleopatra pr...

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Before Shakespeare's formation and death he was just an ordinary poet among many others. ... In 1592, at the start of Shakespeare's career, a well-known writer at the time named Robert Green insulted Shakespeare by naming him an "upstart crow". ... If seen from a more positive perspective, this gave Shakespeare a huge opportunity and caused his popularity to increase, this lead Shakespeare to be taken more seriously and people were beginning to get influenced to giving Shakespeare interest because it implied that regardless of his education and his class, Shakespeare was ca...

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Shakespeare was clearly influenced by his race. ... In addition, magic cures are given in All's Well, evil curses are chanted in Richard III, and prophecies are told in Julius Caesar. ... However, Shakespeare's happy enthusiasm didn't last. ... Shakespeare, however, didn't end his days in mental gloom. ... William Shakespeare was a genius. ...

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Explain how Shakespeare uses language in "Antony and Cleopatra" to depict the two main protagonists. ... Shakespeare even invents actions by Octavius Caesar in order to increase our sympathy for the lovers. ... He only ever cried when Julius Caesar died, and he is the greatest soldier that Octavius Caesar knows. ... The fact that Antony spends much of his time in Egypt causes Octavius Caesar to worry that he is becoming effeminate. ... Shakespeare uses many oxymorons in the play; an example of this is when Cleopatra says: " .. ...

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From Julius Caesar to Macbeth, from Othello to Hamlet, Shakespeare presented at least one machiavel. ... Of all of Shakespeare's plays, King Lear contains Machiavellism in the villain aspect and one can say that Edmund is this type of tragic Shakespearian villain. ... Shakespeare uses a machiavel to commence, irritate, and end the problems in his tragedies. ... Edmund's use of degeneration prevails throughout Shakespeare's tragedy. ... Shakespeare's villain Edmund no doubt has selfish and sinful qualities about him. ...

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From Julius Caesar to Macbeth, from Othello to Hamlet, Shakespeare presented at least one machiavel. ... Of all of Shakespeare's plays, King Lear contains Machiavellism in the villain aspect and one can say that Edmund is this type of tragic Shakespearian villain. ... Shakespeare uses a machiavel to commence, irritate, and end the problems in his tragedies. ... Edmund's use of degeneration prevails throughout Shakespeare's tragedy. ... Shakespeare's villain Edmund no doubt has selfish and sinful qualities about him. ...

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In the scene (Act 3 scene 2) we are presented with the death scenario of Julius Caesar, and the following funeral. ... Romans were very patriotic, and did not want a monarchy, this was probably one of the reasons why Brutus and the conspirators felt it necessary to remove Caesar, as Antony had previously offers Caesar a kingly crown, and although he refused it, Brutus and the others felt it was possible he actually wanted to accept this, therefore posing a threat to their republic. At the beginning of scene 2, the mob are confused as to the reason for the murder of Caesar and d...

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"As You Like It" was written by William Shakespeare. ... And in 1599, a thirty-five-year-old playwright named William Shakespeare was enjoying his prosperity as one of the most successful people working in the London theatre. ... As You Like It was written in this year, just after Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, and Julius Caesar, and just before the writing of Hamlet in 1600. Unlike many of Shakespeare's plays, As You Like It seems to contain few references to the world outside the theatre; unlike the political history Shakespeare reworked in his "history plays," or the commentaries ...

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The Women of Shakespeare Women in Shakespeare's plays were not of importance, compared to the male characters. ... In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet Capulet to me seems to be the most tragic of all Shakespeare's women characters. ... In Julius Caesar, Brutus' wife, Portia did not display herself very much in the play. ... People should not die for love, but in Shakespeare's plays, it seems so. ...

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Shakespeare shades in words of sickness continually during the play, perhaps serving best to illustrate the ill condition of affairs plaguing not only Denmark, but the characters as well. Shakespeare immediately conveys the sense of cold and apathy in the opening scene. ... He tells the men of King Hamlet's battles, and adds how the appearance of the Ghost reminds him of what he has read about the portents of Rome, just before the assassination of Julius Caesar. ... He further notes of the world as being "stale and flat", further examples of the pale images Shakespeare conveys. ...

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In the second century AD the Sophist philosopher Artemidorus of Daldis (who makes two brief and enigmatic appearances in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) drew together the wisdom of earlier centuries, much of it already collected in the great library of the Babylonian King Asurna at Ninevah. ...

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