Julius Caesar (play)

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a play by William Shakespeare. It is about the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. Shakespeare based his play on stories in Plutarch's Life of Brutus and Life of Caesar. The play was probably written in 1599. It was first published in 1623 in the First Folio, a collection of all of Shakespeare's plays.

Julius Caesar
Ghost of Caesar appears to Brutus
Written by	William Shakespeare
Characters	Julius Caesar Mark Antony Octavian Cassius Brutus
Date of premiere	21 September 1599
Place of premiere	Globe Theatre London, England
Original language	English
Subject	Conspiracy Assassination Patriotism Dictatorship Republicanism
Genre	Tragedy
Setting	Rome, 44 BC

The play was probably one of Shakespeare's first plays to be performed at the Globe Theatre. The theatre had just been built. A Swiss traveller saw a tragedy about Julius Caesar at a London theatre on 21 September 1599. This was probably Shakespeare's play.

The play has been made into movies three times. In a 1950 movie, Charlton Heston played Mark Antony. In a 1953 movie, James Mason played Brutus and Marlon Brando played Antony. In a 1970 movie, Jason Robards played Brutus, Charlton Heston played Antony again, and John Gielgud played Caesar.

Julius Caesar (play) Media

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  Within the Tent of Brutus: Enter the Ghost of Caesar, Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene III, a 1905 portrait by Edwin Austin Abbey

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  "Julius Caesar", Act III, Scene 2, the Murder Scene, George Clint (1822)

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  Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852–1917), as Mark Anthony in 'Julius Caesar' by William Shakespeare, Charles A. Buchel (1914)

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  Henry Fuseli, The Death of Brutus, a charcoal drawing with white chalk (c. 1785)

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  Antony (George Coulouris) kneels over the body of Brutus (Orson Welles) at the conclusion of the Mercury Theatre production of Caesar (1937–38)

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  The first page of Julius Caesar, printed in the Second Folio of 1632

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  A late 19th-century painting of Act IV, Scene iii: Brutus sees Caesar's ghost.

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  John Wilkes Booth (left), Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth Jr. in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in 1864.

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  Orson Welles as Brutus in the Mercury Theatre's Caesar (1937–38)

Other websites

• Text of Julius Caesar, fully edited by John Cox, as well as original-spelling text, facsimiles of the 1623 Folio text, and other resources, at the Internet Shakespeare Editions
• Julius Caesar Navigator Includes Shakespeare's text with notes, line numbers, and a search function.
• No Fear Shakespeare Archived 2015-11-23 at the Wayback Machine Includes the play line by line with interpretation.
• All Julius Caesar Archived 2010-01-15 at the Wayback Machine Provides a summary of the play, background on Shakespeare and Julius Caesar, including historical background on Julius Caesar, and a character analysis of Caesar.
• Julius Caesar Archived 2009-05-11 at the Wayback Machine – searchable, indexed e-text
• Julius Caesar – from Project Gutenberg
• Julius Caesar Archived 2012-12-12 at Archive.today – by The Tech
• Julius Caesar – Searchable and scene-indexed version.
• Julius Caesar in modern English
• Lesson plans for Julius Caesar Archived 2010-03-17 at the Wayback Machine at Web English Teacher
• Quicksilver Radio Theater adaptation of "Julius Caesar", which may be heard online, at PRX.org (Public Radio Exchange).
• Julius Caesar Archived 2010-04-24 at the Wayback Machine study guide, themes, quotes, analysis, multimedia, & teaching guide