... has been one of Shakespeare's most well-known and loved tragedies. Its historical appeal is in a sense stronger than plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear, which were all based around minor historical figures. This is not the case with Julius Caesar. The story of Caesar and his dramatic rise through Roman history is well known, which has further endeared both Elizabethan ... and modern audiences to this play. As his chief source in writing Julius Caesar, Shakespeare probably used Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans; written in the first ce...

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