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Review
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, and The Globe
Know the following facts:
1. When Julius Caesar lived
2. When Shakespeare lived and died
3. What the era was called in England during Shakespeare’s life.
4. Women’s roles in the theater
5. What a soliloquy was and who did/did not speak them in the play
6. What an aside is and why it is used
7. What type of play Julius Caesar is classified as.
8. What a tragic hero is
9. How the play begins
10. How long Brutus has been concerned about Caesars faults.
11. Who wants/does not want Antony killed.
12. What iambic pentameter is and who doesn’t use it in the play.
13. What Antony intended with his speech to the people.
14. Who was “the noblest Roman of them all”?
15. Who warned Caesar and how?
16. What id Caesar leave in his will and to whom?
17. Who was the first to stab Caesar?
18. Who did/didn’t want Antony to speak to the people?
19. How and why Portia dies.
20. How and why Cassius dies?
21. How and why Brutus dies?
22. Why Brutus joins the conspiracy.
23. Why Caesar goes to the capitol.
24. What two changes to the conspirators’ original plans are made and by whom?
25. When the play starts.
26. When the Ides of March are.
27. Who is “fickle”? Why?
28. Why Cassius want Brutus in the conspiracy?
29. What Brutus’ inner conflict is.
30. Reason for conspirators’ success.
31. What foreshadows Brutus and Cassius’ defeat.
32. Central theme?
33. Brutus addressed crowd based on what? Antony addressed them based on what?
34. What ghost visits whom?
35. Who the new triumvirate is
36. Examples of foreshadowing
37. Who doesn’t speak in soliloquies?
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