Prepare for battle, Cassius and Brutus know they will both die. Caesar's adopted son Octavius and Mark Antony are ready to battle them for their transgressions.Īs Brutus sleeps that evening, Caesar's ghost comes to him in a dream and warns him of his impending defeat, his apparition telling Brutus 'thou shall see me at Philippi.' As the conspirators As they reconcile, they also prepare for war. Speech over Caesar's dead body brings the common people to tears and mourning, and persuades them to form into a mob that drives the conspirators from Rome.Īs Brutus and Cassius quarrel over the new misfortune that has befallen them after their regicide, they discover that their intentions truly did align and agree that they did mean to killĬaesar to promote justice within Rome. Though the group of conspirators maintains that Caesar's assassination was for the best of the entire Roman community, the powerful Mark Antony quickly steps up and vilifies the assassins.

He utters the famous line 'Et tu, Brute?' Then adds 'Then fall, Caesar,' indicating thatīrutus' treachery no longer gave him will to love. Himself surrounded by a group of conspirators that stab him, one by one.Īs the group murder reaches the final men, Caesar sees that even his old friend Brutus has betrayed him. Caesar does not favor the petition, as is to be expected, but finds

They need his review of an important petition within which one brother pleads for lenience on behalf of his banished brother. A ruse amongst several men has been devised they tell He disregards the message however, and Marcus Brutus and another conspirator,Ĭassius, discuss killing Caesar and stopping his path to ascension without the Roman kingdom.Īs act three develops, Caesar does not have concern for his wellbeing, despite the warnings for his safety that have been relayed to him. One of Shakespeare's most famous, warns Caesar to stay away from danger when the middle of March comes along. As he parades throughout Rome he encounters a psychic who tells him to 'beware the ides of March.' This line, The play begins as Caesar triumphantly returns from a battle in the battle of Munda. Though Caesar is the title character, his role is not as large as that of Marcus Brutus, the conspirator who takes Caesar's life. William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, or just Julius Caesar, is believed to have been written in 1599 and is one of Shakespeare's works based on true historical events.

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