“Beware the ides of March.” The soothsayers warning to Caesar. Act 1, Scene 2, line 18 “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”Caesar giving his opinion about Cassius. Act 1 Scene 2, lines 194-95 “Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death …
Mark Antony Mark Antony is Julius Caesars right-hand man and personal friend. He is known as a man who likes to spend the nights in feasting and revelry. He enjoys sports and theater. It is Antonys cunning speech to the masses after Caesars death that turns public opinion against the assassins, who gravely underestimated and …
Local parish records reveal that William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in the town of Stratford, in the English midlands. He was probably born just a few days earlier, but the exact date is not known. His father was John Shakespeare, a glove-maker and trader in farm commodities; his mother was Mary Arden, …
“Beware the ides of March.” The soothsayers warning to Caesar. Act 1, Scene 2, line 18 “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.”Caesar giving his opinion about Cassius. Act 1 Scene 2, lines 194-95 “Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death …
Julius Caesar is a play about political power and how it may be legitimately and illegitimately wielded. It also shows the role of what we now call public opinion, which in this play is embodied in the gut responses of the common folk. The play also raises many questions. Who is the plays central character? …
The leading characters in the play are all public figures, and as such they are practiced speakers. In his book, Shakespeare, Mark van Doren points out that the characters all tend to talk in the same efficient, carefully structured way. But if all the characters are in a sense orators, some are better at it …
Mark Antony Mark Antony is Julius Caesars right-hand man and personal friend. He is known as a man who likes to spend the nights in feasting and revelry. He enjoys sports and theater. It is Antonys cunning speech to the masses after Caesars death that turns public opinion against the assassins, who gravely underestimated and …
Brutus and his soldiers, defeated in battle, stop to rest. Brutus makes it clear that he wishes to be killed. Clitus refuses, as does Dardanius. Then Brutus asks Volumnius, telling him that he has twice seen the ghost of Caesar and he knows his time to die has come. Volumnius also refuses. There are sounds …
On the battlefield, Brutus urges his men on. Cato is killed. Lucilius, claiming that he is Brutus in order to confuse the enemy, is captured. Antonys soldiers tell him they have captured Brutus, but when Antony asks where he is (knowing that Lucilius is not Brutus) Lucilius tells him that Brutus is safe and will …
The battle goes badly for Cassiuss troops. Cassius angrily reports that his own soldiers have run from the enemy. Brutus appears to be having some success, but his soldiers have fallen to looting. Pindarus tells Cassius to flee because Antonys troops are upon them. Cassius refuses. He sends Titinius to investigate whether there really …
