The Roman Republic
The Roman Empire lasted for _____ years.
500 years
Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, and ______
histories
The first one to stab Caesar
Casca
The word used repeatedly by Marc Antony in his speech
honorable or ambitious
What holiday is going on at the beginning of the play?
Feast of Lupercal
The reason why the Roman Empire lasted so long.
no monarchies or absolute power given to one person.
Shakespeare lived in _____
1600s
Brutus' wife
Portia
Brutus tells the plebians that Caesar would have made them all slaves, thereby using _____ as a rhetorical device.
Logos
Name one of the phenomena witnessed by Casca.
fire storm, 100 ghastly women, graves yielding up their dead, a battle in the clouds, a lion in the Capitol, a slave with his hand on fire
Caesar's Predecessor
Pompey
What does "wherefore" mean?
Why
Caesar tells the Senate that he can't repeal the banishment of Publius' brother because he is as constant as ________________
Northern Star
Who says "when beggars die, there are no comets seen"?
Calpurnia
Who speaks first at Caesar's funeral?
Brutus
Rome's population at the time of Caesar
1 Million
Shakespeare's theater
The Globe
Name one of the two tribunes at the beginning of the play, who tell the crowd to stop praising Caesar
Flavius and Marullus
What does Antony say Caesar has left to the people of Rome?
All the public parks and orchards, plus 75 drachmas each
How does Cassius convince Brutus to join the conspiracy?
forges letters and puts them in his room, points out ways that Caesar is weak, says Brutus is better than Caesar
True or False - soldiers were not allowed within the city limits of Rome.
True - this is why Antony, with the support of the masses, was able to cause a riot at Caesar's funeral.
Name all 3 reasons why the church didn't like the theater back in the 1600s (and today pretty much).
Health reasons (plague)
Moral reasons (cross dressing)
Safety reasons (crime)
The poet who was killed due to mistaken identity
Cinna
Antony was successful in inciting a riot because he used ______ in his speech.
(ethos, pathos, or logos)
pathos
What is offered to Caesar 3 times by the plebians?
a symbolic crown