This document provides background information on William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, including definitions of key terms, dates, characters, and brief summaries of some important quotes and scenes. It covers details like the Ides of March being March 15th, the Globe Theatre being where Shakespeare's plays were performed, and Shakespeare writing during the Elizabethan Era. Key characters like Julius Caesar, Brutus, Antony, Portia and more are defined along with short descriptions of some of their actions in the play.

1. Julius Caesar
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2. Background
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3. Background Information
What is a tragic hero?

4. Background Information
What is a tragic hero?
A literary character who
makes mistakes that lead to
his own downfall

5. What date is the Ides of March?
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March 15

6. What is the name of the theatre where many
of Shakespeare’s plays were performed?
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THE GLOBE THEATRE

7. During what time period or
era did Shakespeare write?
Background Information
Elizabethan Era

8. What was Shakespeare’s
wife’s name?
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ANNE HATHAWAY

9. Who played the roles of women in
Shakespeare’s plays?
TEENAGE BOYS
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10. Where was Shakespeare born?
Stratford upon Avon
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12. : Julius Caesar was born
in 200 BC and died in 144 BC.
.
JC actually lived from 100BC to 44BC.

13. Julius Caesar was
given the title “Dictator for Life.”

14. Whom was the
named for?
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16. What is poetry in lines that don’t rhyme called?

17. How many syllables are used
in ?

18. What is it called when a character speaks in
length and is the only person on stage OR we
ignore the other characters momentarily?

19.  When Shakespeare and other authors give
the audience hints at what is to come, it is
called.....

21. Which character was...
killed on the ides of
March?
Julius Caesar

22. Marcus Brutus
Which character was...a
friend of Caesar, turned
conspirator?

23. PORTIA
Which character was...
wife of Brutus?

24. Cinna, the poet
Which character
was...killed because he
had the same name as a
conspirator?

25. Calpurnia
Which character was...
wife to Caesar?

26. Marc Antony
Which character was...
Loyal to Caesar?

27. PORTIA
Which character was...
daughter of Cato?

28. Cassius
Which character was...
Leader alongside
Brutus?

29. Artemidorus
Which character
was...trying to stop
Caesar’s murder by
reading a letter near the
capitol on the Ides of
March?

30. Octavius
Which character was...
Caesar’s nephew?

31. Lepidus
Which character was...
used by Antony and
Octavius and also a part
of the triumvirate?

32. According to Antony, which
character is the noblest
Roman of all?
Brutus

34. In Act I, Scene i,
Rome is celebrating
Caesar’s victory
over whom?

35. What did the soothsayer
say to Julius Caesar?

36. Who offered the crown to
Julius Caesar? (Character
name!)

37. How many times did
Antony offer Caesar
the crown?
3 times

38. In Act I, scene iii, Casca
sees something as a bad
omen. Cassius thinks the
same thing is a sign to
overthrow Caesar. What is
this thing?
A storm

39. True or False. The
non-poet Cinna is
a conspirator.
TRUE!

40. The conspiracy sends
Brutus _________ to
convince him to join
against Caesar.

41. Besides Julius Caesar,
Cassius wants to kill
whom?

42. Who talks Cassius out
of killing Antony?

43. What happened in
Calpurnia’s dream in Act
II to make her think that
Caesar was going to die?
•JC’s statue was spouting
blood.

44. Decius reinterprets
Calpurnia’s dream to
make it a positive thing.
Why?
To get Caesar to come to the
senate. He was the conspirator
who was in charge of getting
him there.

45. What does Julius
Caesar say as he
dies?

46. How does Antony
immediately react to JC’s
death?
HE FLEES

47. Who speaks first at
Caesar’s funeral?
BRUTUS

48. Who speaks after
Brutus at JC’s funeral?
ANTONY

49. True or False: In Act IV,
Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus
agree to kill members of their
own families to revenge
Caesar’s Death.
TRUE

50. Why does Antony
ask for Caesar’s will
in Act IV?
To change it

51. Whose appeared in Act IV?

52. To whom did the
ghost speak?
Brutus

53. Who says good-bye in
Act V, scene i?
(2 characters)
Brutus and Cassius

54. When Cassius thinks
that Titinius has been
killed, what does he do?
He kills himself

55. How does Brutus
die?
Strato holds his dagger,
and Brutus runs into it.

57. “If there be any in this assembly, any
dear friend of Caesar’s , to him I saw
that ______’s love to Caesar was no
less than his. If then that friend
Demand why _______ rose against
Caesar, this is my Answer: Not that I
loved Caesar less, but that I loved
Rome more...”

58. Who said the quote on the
previous slide?
Brutus

59. When did Brutus say this quote?
During Caesar’s funeral

60. “I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And sure he is an honorable man...”

61. Who said this quote?
Antony

62. When did Antony say this
quote?
During Caesar’s funeral

63. 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.

64. Who said this quote?
Julius Caesar

65. When did Julius Caesar say
this quote?
When Caesar, Calpurnia, and Decius
were discussing Calpurnia’s dream.

66. “Think you I am no stronger than
my sex,
Being so fathered and so
husbanded?
Tell me your counsels; I will not
disclose them.”

67. Who said this quote?
Portia

68. When did Portia say this quote?
Before Brutus helped kill Caesar.
She knew something was
bothering him, but he would
not admit that to her.