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1 Discussion Guide Julius Caesar By William Shakespeare Directed by Sara Clark

2 Theater Etiquette It is important to remember that the audience a vital part of a theatrical performance. Without the audience, there is no show. We respect our audiences and hope that they respect the theatre, our staff, actors and crew. Your contribution of laughter, applause and attention is part of the play. Your students are representatives for your school when you are at the theatre. The pointers below will help you prepare your students for their visit to The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Going to the theatre is a special occasion. If students are prepared properly, it will be an experience they will remember for years. 1. Arrive on time. The time posted is the time the show actually starts... unlike at the movies, there are no commercials or previews! If you have arrived after the performance has begun you may be asked to wait to take your seats until it is appropriate to do so. We encourage schools to arrive by 9:30, at least half an hour before the show starts. 2. Keep the theatre clean We allow no food or drinks in the theatre. However, after the show you may picnic in Washington Park or grab some Pizza at Papa John's. 3. Be considerate of other audience members Talking, whispering, shuffling about in your seats or rattling candy wrappers during a live performance is disruptive to other audience members who are trying to enjoy the show. 4. Do not distract the actors. The actors can see and hear what goes on in the audience. While our actors appreciate your enthusiasm for their performance, please do not attempt to interact with, talk to or touch them while they are on stage or entering/exiting via the aisle. If you need to take notes for your class, please make sure you are not seated in the first three rows as it can be extremely distracting to the actors. Your comments to one another (both good and bad) can be heard by the actors. Please do not talk about their performances while the show is going on. 5. Turn off electronic devices Pagers, cell phones and electronic watches are disruptive and may interfere with the theatre sound system. The lights from text messaging are distracting to the actors. Turn electronic devices off completely during the show. 6. Remain seated during the performance (except for emergencies) Actors frequently enter and exit via the aisles and so for safety reasons the aisles need to remain clear during the show. Be sure to use the washroom before the show or during intermission. 7. No photographs or recording devices. For the safety of cast members, stage crew and the enjoyment of other patrons, no photography (flash or no flash) or recording devices are permitted during the performance. It is also illegal, since we are bound to the copyright rules of several labor and artists unions. Avoid a situation in which the house manager might be forced to confiscate photographic equipment. With your cooperation in preparing your students to follow theatre etiquette, rules and guidelines, we are sure you and your students will have an enjoyable and entertaining theatre experience! The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

3 About the Playwright: William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the English town of Stratfordupon-Avon. The son of John Shakespeare, a successful glove maker and public official, and Mary Arden, the daughter of a gentleman, William was the oldest surviving sibling of eight children. Throughout Shakespeare s childhood, companies of touring actors visited Stratford. Although there is no evidence to prove that Shakespeare ever saw these actors perform, most scholars agree that he probably did. In 1582, at the age of 18, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a farmer. The couple had become parents of two daughters and a son by Sometime in the next eight years, Shakespeare left his family in Stratford and moved to London to pursue a career in the theater. Records show that by 1592, he had become a successful actor and playwright in that city. Shakespeare joined a famous acting group called the Lord Chamberlain s Men, so named for their patron, or supporter, a high official in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. One of the first plays Shakespeare wrote for this company was Romeo and Juliet. In 1598 Shakespeare became part owner of a major new theater, the Globe. For more than a decade, Shakespeare produced a steady stream of works, both tragedies and comedies, which were performed at the Globe, the royal court, and other London theaters. However, shortly after the Globe was destroyed by fire in 1613, he retired and returned to Stratford. He died in Stratford in Plot synopsis: Two tribunes, Flavius and Murellus, find scores of Roman citizens wandering the streets, neglecting their work in order to watch Julius Caesar s triumphal parade: Caesar has defeated the sons of the deceased Roman general Pompey, his archrival, in battle. The tribunes scold the citizens for abandoning their duties and remove decorations from Caesar s statues. Caesar enters with his entourage, including the military and political figures Brutus, Cassius, and Antony. A Soothsayer calls out to Caesar to beware the Ides of March, but Caesar ignores him and proceeds with his victory celebration (I.ii.19, I.ii.25). Cassius and Brutus, both longtime intimates of Caesar and each other, converse. Cassius tells Brutus that he has seemed distant lately; Brutus replies that he has been at war with himself. Cassius states that he wishes Brutus could see himself as others see him, for then Brutus would realize how honored and respected he is. Brutus says that he fears that the people want Caesar to become king, which would overturn the republic. Cassius concurs that Caesar is treated like a god though he is merely a man, no better than Brutus or Cassius. Cassius recalls incidents of Caesar s physical weakness and marvels that this fallible man has become so powerful. He blames his and Brutus s lack of will for allowing Caesar s rise to power: surely the rise of such a man

4 cannot be the work of fate. Brutus considers Cassius s words as Caesar returns. Upon seeing Cassius, Caesar tells Antony that he deeply distrusts Cassius. Caesar departs, and another politician, Casca, tells Brutus and Cassius that, during the celebration, Antony offered the crown to Caesar three times and the people cheered, but Caesar refused it each time. He reports that Caesar then fell to the ground and had some kind of seizure before the crowd; his demonstration of weakness, however, did not alter the plebeians devotion to him. Brutus goes home to consider Cassius s words regarding Caesar s poor qualifications to rule, while Cassius hatches a plot to draw Brutus into a conspiracy against Caesar. That night, Rome is plagued with violent weather and a variety of bad omens and portents. Brutus finds letters in his house apparently written by Roman citizens worried that Caesar has become too powerful. The letters have in fact been forged and planted by Cassius, who knows that if Brutus believes it is the people s will, he will support a plot to remove Caesar from power. A committed supporter of the republic, Brutus fears the possibility of a dictator-led empire, worrying that the populace would lose its voice. Cassius arrives at Brutus s home with his conspirators, and Brutus, who has already been won over by the letters, takes control of the meeting. The men agree to lure Caesar from his house and kill him. Cassius wants to kill Antony too, for Antony will surely try to hinder their plans, but Brutus disagrees, believing that too many deaths will render their plot too bloody and dishonor them. Having agreed to spare Antony, the conspirators depart. Portia, Brutus s wife, observes that Brutus appears preoccupied. She pleads with him to confide in her, but he rebuffs her. Caesar prepares to go to the Senate. His wife, Calpurnia, begs him not to go, describing recent nightmares she has had in which a statue of Caesar streamed with blood and smiling men bathed their hands in the blood. Caesar refuses to yield to fear and insists on going about his daily business. Finally, Calpurnia convinces him to stay home if not out of caution, then as a favor to her. But Decius, one of the conspirators, then arrives and convinces Caesar that Calpurnia has misinterpreted her dreams and the recent omens. Caesar departs for the Senate in the company of the conspirators. As Caesar proceeds through the streets toward the Senate, the Soothsayer again tries but fails to get his attention. The citizen Artemidorus hands him a letter warning him about the conspirators, but Caesar refuses to read it, saying that his closest personal concerns are his last priority. At the Senate, the conspirators speak to Caesar, bowing at his feet and encircling him. One by one, they stab him to death. When Caesar sees his dear friend Brutus among his murderers, he gives up his struggle and dies. The murderers bathe their hands and swords in Caesar s blood, thus bringing Calpurnia s premonition to fruition. Antony, having been led away on a false pretext, returns and pledges allegiance to Brutus but weeps over Caesar s body. He shakes hands with the conspirators, thus marking them all as guilty while appearing to make a gesture of conciliation. When Antony asks why they killed Caesar, Brutus replies that he will explain their purpose in a funeral oration. Antony asks to be allowed to speak over the body as well; Brutus grants his permission, though Cassius remains suspicious of Antony. The conspirators depart, and Antony, alone now, swears that Caesar s death shall be avenged. Brutus and Cassius go to the Forum to speak to the public. Cassius exits to address another part of the crowd. Brutus declares to the masses that though he loved Caesar, he loves Rome more, and Caesar s ambition posed a danger to Roman liberty. The speech placates the crowd. Antony appears with Caesar s body, and Brutus departs after turning the pulpit over to Antony. Repeatedly referring to Brutus as an honorable man, Antony s speech becomes increasingly sarcastic;

5 questioning the claims that Brutus made in his speech that Caesar acted only out of ambition, Antony points out that Caesar brought much wealth and glory to Rome, and three times turned down offers of the crown. Antony then produces Caesar s will but announces that he will not read it for it would upset the people inordinately. The crowd nevertheless begs him to read the will, so he descends from the pulpit to stand next to Caesar s body. He describes Caesar s horrible death and shows Caesar s wounded body to the crowd. He then reads Caesar s will, which bequeaths a sum of money to every citizen and orders that his private gardens be made public. The crowd becomes enraged that this generous man lies dead; calling Brutus and Cassius traitors, the masses set off to drive them from the city. Meanwhile, Caesar s adopted son and appointed successor, Octavius, arrives in Rome and forms a threeperson coalition with Antony and Lepidus. They prepare to fight Cassius and Brutus, who have been driven into exile and are raising armies outside the city. At the conspirators camp, Brutus and Cassius have a heated argument regarding matters of money and honor, but they ultimately reconcile. Brutus reveals that he is sick with grief, for in his absence Portia has killed herself. The two continue to prepare for battle with Antony and Octavius. That night, the Ghost of Caesar appears to Brutus, announcing that Brutus will meet him again on the battlefield. Octavius and Antony march their army toward Brutus and Cassius. Antony tells Octavius where to attack, but Octavius says that he will make his own orders; he is already asserting his authority as the heir of Caesar and the next ruler of Rome. The opposing generals meet on the battlefield and exchange insults before beginning combat. Cassius witnesses his own men fleeing and hears that Brutus s men are not performing effectively. Cassius sends one of his men, Pindarus, to see how matters are progressing. From afar, Pindarus sees one of their leaders, Cassius s best friend, Titinius, being surrounded by cheering troops and concludes that he has been captured. Cassius despairs and orders Pindarus to kill him with his own sword. He dies proclaiming that Caesar is avenged. Titinius himself then arrives the men encircling him were actually his comrades, cheering a victory he had earned. Titinius sees Cassius s corpse and, mourning the death of his friend, kills himself. Brutus learns of the deaths of Cassius and Titinius with a heavy heart, and prepares to take on the Romans again. When his army loses, doom appears imminent. Brutus asks one of his men to hold his sword while he impales himself on it. Finally, Caesar can rest satisfied, he says as he dies. Octavius and Antony arrive. Antony speaks over Brutus s body, calling him the noblest Roman of all. While the other conspirators acted out of envy and ambition, he observes, Brutus genuinely believed that he acted for the benefit of Rome. Octavius orders that Brutus be buried in the most honorable way. The men then depart to celebrate their victory.

6 About the Play: Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, written sometime around As movie posters and book covers like to say, the play is "based on a true story": the historical events surrounding the conspiracy against the ancient Roman leader Julius Caesar (c b.c.) and the civil war that followed his death. Shakespeare portrays Caesar's assassination on the Ides of March (March 15) by a group of conspirators who feared the ambitious leader would turn the Roman Republic into a tyrannical monarchy. Julius Caesar was most likely the first play performed at the Globe Theater. Shakespeare wrote the play around 1599, just after he had completed a series of English political histories. Like the history plays, Julius Caesar gives voice to some late-16th-century English political concerns. When Shakespeare wrote Caesar, it was pretty obvious that the 66-year-old Queen Elizabeth I ( ) wasn't going to produce an heir to the throne, and her subjects were stressed out about what would happen upon the monarch's death. Would chaos ensue when Elizabeth died? Who would take the queen's place? Would the next monarch be a fit ruler or a tyrant? In other words, Julius Caesar asks its audience to think about the parallels between ancient Roman history and contemporary politics. Shakespeare's main source for the play is Plutarch's famous biography The Life of Julius Caesar, written in Greek in the 1st century and translated into English in 1579 by Sir Thomas North. This is no big surprise, since Shakespeare and his contemporaries were completely obsessed with Roman culture and politics. (In fact, Elizabethan schoolboys spent most of their time reading and translating ancient Roman and Greek literature. Apparently that's what kids did in the days before TV and the Internet.) Today, along with Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar is often taught in 9th grade classrooms as an introduction to Shakespeare. The relatively straightforward language and simplicity of plot make it a good starting point for students new to 16th-century drama. Julius Caesar is also considered to be the least sexy of Shakespeare's dramatic works, which, for some, makes it a "safe" option in classrooms full of teenagers. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

7 Actor s thoughts: Brent Vimtrup* (Brutus): The text of JULIUS CAESAR tells us that Brutus is a character who values his mind above anything else. He is in love with reason. Speaking selectively in the beginning of the play, he listens with very little outward emotion. Brutus natural disposition is stillness. In the eyes of his peers, he is a mountain. Me? I tend to be quite the opposite. I m a guy who tends to wear his heart on his sleeve. But luckily, they call it ACTING! And lo and behold, you don t need to inherently be the character you are portraying; you only have to act like them. So, I have worked hard on making choices for Brutus (at the beginning of the play) that reflect this outer stillness acting with an economy of movement and gestures. This has been a challenge for me, as I tend to be much more frenetic, but it has helped me to creative a lovely storm of inner drama for the character. When that storm of suppressed emotions is released in the climatic assassination of Caesar, the world of the Republic is torn apart. Brutus world (including his mannerisms!) is flipped upside down just as the Republic is. During the assassination, I find myself much more at home as an actor and allow myself to follow my instincts of frenetic physical and vocal choices and it is (hopefully!) all truthful because I ve created all that inner drama by suppressing it in the beginning of the play. Like a volcano that finally gets its moment to erupt. The true fun of Brutus, however, is reasoning my way towards a conclusion during the second act of the play: ending back in a place of stillness after all that movement. Tess Talbot (Portia): Portia has been a dream role of mine for the past five years. I wasn t sure I d be cast, even though I specifically mentioned that it was the part I was most interested in during auditions the year prior. I am fascinated by her relationship with Brutus, which is so incredibly rounded out in her two short scenes, one of which is cut from our production. Portia is Brutus equal in every way but when he denies her counsel for his troubles, she speaks to him in the manner of the Roman Forum: addressing him in legal, masculine terms. Her particular structure of speech was one that I originally thought had to be calm and measured; trying to fight the obstacle of his silence and dismissals with reason. However, it struck me one night driving home that lawyers everywhere practice their opening and closing statements, but they are not without passion. I had blocked myself from the opportunity to reach him passionately with my words and less physical interaction, which is a habit of mine. That realization added another layer of intensity to our short exchange and all for the better. It is a pleasure to play one of only two female characters in the entire play, especially a woman so loyal, so convicted, and so equal to her husband. Josh Katawick (Cassius): Julius Caesar is a story about honor and ambition, and about personal and national pride. Pride in one's friends, pride of one's country, and pride of one's place within that country. Cassius certainly comprises all of these things, but above all is those he holds in great esteem, including himself. Cassius resentment is not centered around the well-being of the Republic and the greater good of Rome (as the honorable Brutus is), but the fact that feeble Julius Caesar is hailed as the greatest singular man in all the world. Cassius knows in his heart of hearts Julius Caesar is not the one to wear the crown and become dictator of Rome. If a crown is to be worn, then it should be worn by one deserving and commanding of that authority. Even in the great self-respect he has, he truly believes in Brutus' honorable mettle above anyone else, which is why he yields to Brutus leading the conspiracy after Cassius himself has assembled it. He understands that Brutus is the single figure more fit for the position than himself. The crux of the events in the play hinges on this relationship and trust, and it proves that Cassius is wrong. Every suggestion Cassius gives and Brutus overrides, turns out to prove costly. Brutus' honor is matched only by Cassius loyalty.

8 Themes: Power: When it seems evident to the conspirators in Shakespeare's play that Julius Caesar is headed for absolute power, he becomes a threat to the ideals and values of the Roman Republic. In other words, he's voted off the island.they assassinate Caesar before he can be crowned king. The irony is that Caesar's death results in civil war. As two factions with questionable motives grab for power, chaos ensues and the Republic is never the same again. See what happens when you don't plan ahead? By dramatizing the historical circumstances surrounding Caesar's assassination, Shakespeare asks a series of questions relevant to his 16th-century audience and readers today: How should cities and countries be governed? What makes a good leader? What happens when a political leader's power is unchecked? What happens when the leader dies without a suitable replacement lined up? Fate and Freewill: Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. ( ) That's what Cassius says to Brutus as the two contemplate removing Caesar from power. Although Cassius claims that men are "masters of their fates" as a way to motivate the conspirators to action against Caesar, there's a lot of evidence to suggest he's wrong. The play is full of omens and prophesies that come true, which undermines the sense that characters can exercise free will and shape the outcomes of their lives. We should also keep in mind that Julius Caesar dramatizes historical events that have, by definition, already happened. As characters struggle with questions of fate vs. free will, the audience already knows what their futures hold. This tends to create a lot of dramatic irony. Friendship Men in the play must to choose between loyalty to their friends and loyalty to the Roman Republic, which leads to some of the most famous examples of manipulation and violent betrayal in Western literature. This is especially true for Brutus, who chooses to join the conspirators' assassination plot when it seems clear to him that his BFF, Julius Caesar, is headed for absolute power. GENDER: It's definitely a man's world in Julius Caesar. Characters who display any signs of weakness in the masculine realm of politics and warfare are considered sissies. Women are considered weak and irrelevant (as when Caesar totally disregards Calphurnia's ominous dream so he won't be thought of as a wimp). Portia, one of the play's two female characters, subscribes to the idea that women are feeble and erratic: her infamous declaration, "Ay me, how weak a thing / The heart of woman is!" hangs throughout the play like a cold, wet, misogynistic rag.

9 MANIPULATION: In Julius Caesar, manipulation is almost a professional sport. Politicians use their rhetorical skills to gain power and to influence large, fickle crowds, and seeming friends lie outright to each other. It's not all that different from middle school popularity contests, just in a more ancient setting. Persuasion and suggestion are rhetorical skills that play central roles in Julius Caesar, but they also highlight the willingness of individuals in hard times to hear what they want to hear (remind you at all of our own day and age?). It's often unclear whether characters are manipulated by others, or do they simply find in the speech of others an inspiration to do what they might otherwise have been too afraid to do. PRIDE: When it comes to pride, Julius Caesar takes the gold. He's the most outwardly arrogant and considering some of the other characters we're introduced to, that's saying a lot. Caesar's total lack of humility seems to be his tragic flaw. His prideful arrogance is a blinding force that prevents him from seeing the harm he's doing and the harm being planned against him. When Brutus is humble about what others call his greatness, he sets himself up in sympathetic contrast to Caesar. We like Brutus because he isn't all fatheaded. He also seems wiser than Caesar for being more aware of the world around him and genuinely more concerned for it. PRINCIPLES: Honor is one of the central conundrums in Julius Caesar. Some actions are done in the name of honor, others in spite of it. National honor challenges personal honor, and obligations and desires put honor at stake. All these layers of honor, which often conflict with each other, ultimately lead back to the issue of perspective. Each character has to decide what's best for him and act on it accordingly. In the end, they can only do honor to their own judgment, as they have no clear standard for what is good in their world.

10 Shakespeare VS. History As I m sure you know, this play was based on a real man. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman that was murdered by conspirators on the steps of the Capital in 44 BC; however, Shakespeare, having a flair for the dramatics, could play a bit fast and loose with history from time to time. Here are some of the facts/dramatics Shakespeare included in his play, Julius Caesar: Caesar's victorious return back to Rome after defeating Pompey: is the first scene of the play, and an actual historical event as well The offering of the Crown: In the play, this is in Act 1 Scene 2. Antony offers Caesar the crown thrice, and thrice Caesar refused. In Caesar's actual history, Antony offers him a diadem, the symbol of the Hellenistic monarchs, but Caesar refuses, saying the only King of the Romans is Jupiter. (At this time period, Christianity did not yet exist.) The Ides of March: Caesar dies on the Ides of March both in real life and in the play, but it is not confirmed whether he was actually warned beforehand about his death by a soothsayer as in the play. The Conspiracy: The conspiracy was indeed led by Brutus and Cassius both in real life and in the play, but in real life there were about 60 other conspirators while in the play there were 10. Also, the personal relationships between the conspirators may not be accurate to the one depicted in the play, but this cannot be confirmed. Octavius and Antony: It is true in both that in the end, Octavius comes into power mainly due to the help of Antony. The fact that the conspirators did not kill Antony was an actual blunder made in real life. Et tu, Brute?: It is not confirmed whether this is actually said in real life, but legend has it that Caesar says to Brutus, "You, too, my son?" in Greek, right before he died. The famous quotation is most likely based on this legend, that may or may not be true. The Real Caesar So Superhuman did Gaius Julius Caesar ( B.C.) seem to later generations that a legend arose that he had been born through an incision in his mother s body that is, a Caesarian section, which, with the name of the month of July, is Julius Caesar s legacy to the English language. An undistinguished boyhood followed his legendary birth: Caesar apparently preferred parties to politics and dice to diplomacy. Few saw the ruthless character beneath his frivolous exterior. Cicero, the great Roman orator, was perhaps the first to see tyrannical purposes in Caesar s plans, although at times even he doubted: When I look at his hair so artfully arranged, I cannot believe he is the sort of man to overthrow the Roman state. First in Spain, then Gaul and Britain, and finally in the civil wars that gave him sole power, Caesar proved himself the greatest general Rome ever had. His main assets were his own boldness and speed and the loyalty of his men, whose hardships he insisted on sharing and who, in turn, revered him. Accounts of Caesar s bravery, which he surely did little to discourage, approached the mythical. Once, for instance, he supposedly escaped a surprise attach by leaping into the sea and swimming to a nearby ship while carrying above the water diplomatic documents and dragging his cloak in his teeth so the enemy couldn t take it as a trophy.

11 Caesar s military ability was matched only by his verbal skill. Absent from Rome for nine years while fighting in Gaul, he sent regular reports from the front. His detailed and sometimes thrilling commentaries kept the Romans informed and, not coincidentally, kept his name before them. Caesar may not have invented political propaganda, but he certainly knew how to use it; no modern politician has come up with a better slogan than I came. I saw. I conquered. The myth of Caesar also included his superhuman energy: He could ride all night and fight all day, his proponents claimed, while his detractors pointed to a similar vitality in the bedroom. Even to the pleasure-loving Romans, Caesar seemed highly sexed. Women threw themselves at him (Cleopatra is said to have had herself smuggled into his presence rolled up in a rug), and friends often joked that once Caesar came to power he would make polygamy legal for Caesar. He was, in the words of one Roman, every woman s husband ; yet he was also known as the only sober man who ever tired to wreck the Roman constitution, for drink was not among his vices. Power was, however, and Caesar could not or would not hide the pleasure he took in it; nor would he credit threats of assassination at the hands of senators whose political ambitions he had cut off. At a dinner party one evening, when discussion turned to the ideal death, he said swift and unexpected. He got his wish the next day, the Ides of March, when sixty members of the senate struggled with one another to thrust their daggers into his body. Excerpted from an article by Marleen Flory. Of all the wonders that I have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

12 Discussion Questions: COMPARE AND CONTRAST 1. Compare what you know about the women in the play to women today. How has the role of a wife changed? Is it better or worse for women today? 2. Research the life and actual events that we know about Caesar s murder. How much artistic license did Shakespeare take in his play? 3. Compare what we know of Caesar s actions in the play from what he is accused of by Casssius and Brutus. Was he a threat to the republic or not? RELATIONAL 1. Is there such a thing as honorable preemptive murder or crime? Is it right to kill in order to prevent something that might happen (i.e. Caesar might have become an evil emperor)? 2. Consider the political world of America. Today senators do not kill one another physically, but what kinds of tricks do they play to kill one another s careers? 3. Cassius and Brutus both commit suicide at the end of the play in order to escape their perceived failures. What are the real effects of suicide? TEXTUAL 1. Based on what Cassius says in , concerning his motives for wishing to be rid of Caesar what are we to think of Cassius? Is he right? Should we pity him? What can we make of his character? 2. Why is the play called Julius Caesar if he only appears alive in three scenes? How does Caesar remain an important character in the play after his death? Look especially at the comments Brutus makes about him in the battle scenes. 3. Examine Portia s speech to Brutus in 2.1. What do we learn about her idea of honor? From Brutus response to her what do we learn about their relationship as husband and wife? Shakespeare s World 1. Romans viewed suicide as honorable; the Christian world views it as a sin. What is Shakespeare saying about suicide in this play? Examine each example and draw conclusions. 2. Brutus and Messala both claim to be followers of the Stoic philosophy. What is stoicism? What do you think was Shakespeare s attitude about stoicism? 3. This play was written only a few years before Queen Elizabeth I s death. What comparisons could be drawn between the English monarchy of Shakespeare s day and Caesar s Roman republic?

13 Classroom Activities: Activity 1- You re the Actor Pick out any speech from any character after Caesar has died. What do you have to do to be as convincing as possible? How can you convince others that you are right? OR Write your own speech about Caesar to address the public with after he died. What side are you on? How can you bring more people to your side? Activity 2- Create your Own Prophesy: Pair up into groups of two. Have each person describe a dream to his or her partner, and then the partner decides what it meant. Then see if you can make the exact opposite deduction, like Decius did for Calphurnia s dream. Then trade roles. Activity 3- Stage Caesar: Create production designs of costumes and sets for the play if it were set in different eras or governments. How does the time in which the play is set affect its meaning? For instance if we place Rome in 1930 s Germany and give Caesar a small mustache and ask how his murder changes the course of modern history. Era s to consider: 1963 USA, JFK 1918 Russia, Nicolas II 1649 England, Charles I 1788 USA, George Washington Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

14 Sources: Photos by Mikki Schaffner

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