Vocab
This word means a prediction or warning of bad things to come.
omen?
This character warns Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March.”
Soothsayer
This battle takes place at the end of the play.
The Battle of Philippi
The conspirators kill this Roman leader.
Julius Caesar?
Shakespeare wrote during the reign of this famous English queen for much of his career.
Queen Elizabeth I
This word means loyal support for a cause or person.
Allegiance
Brutus joins the conspiracy because he fears Caesar may become this.
tyrant
After Caesar’s death, these two men join together against Brutus and Cassius.
Antony and Octavius
This speech begins with “Friends, Romans, countrymen…”
Antony’s funeral speech
Most women’s roles in Shakespeare’s plays were performed by these people.
Boys
This word means to kill an important person for political reasons.
What is assassinate (or assassination)?
Caesar refuses this crown offered to him by Antony.
What is the crown at the Feast of Lupercal?
This character sees Caesar’s ghost before the battle.
Who is Brutus?
Brutus believes Caesar’s death will protect this government system.
What is the Roman Republic?
This open-air theater is most associated with Shakespeare’s plays.
What is the Globe Theatre?
This word means able to be influenced or persuaded.
Answer: What is impressionable?
This conspirator forges letters to convince Brutus to join the plot.
Answer: Who is Cassius?
Cassius dies because he wrongly believes this has happened.
Answer: What is that Titinius was captured (or that the battle was lost)?
This event turns the Roman crowd against the conspirators.
Answer: What is Antony’s funeral speech?
People believed strongly in fate, astrology, and these supernatural signs.
Answer: What are omens?
This word means showing respect and honor to the gods or religion.
What is reverence?
Calpurnia begs Caesar not to go to the Senate because of this frightening vision.
What is her dream of Caesar’s statue bleeding?
Brutus chooses to die by this method rather than be captured.
What is suicide by sword?
This tragic flaw leads Brutus to trust others too easily.
What is honor?
Shakespeare’s audiences believed that disrupting the natural order could lead to this.
What is chaos?