Plot
This significant event happened on the Ides of March
Julius Caesar was assassinated
Portia, Brutus' wife, would have been played by a person of this gender
male
Caesar was the emperor of this empire
The Roman Empire
Warns Caesars with a letter
Artemidorus
the reason most conspirators killed Caesar
jealousy
said, "O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit that touches Caesar nearer. Read it, great Caesar."
Artemidorus
Shakespeare's theater was called
the globe
Month and day of the Ides of March is
March 15
Called "the noblest Roman of them all"
Brutus
The climax of the play is when Brutus seals the conspirators doom by
allowing Antony to speak at Caesar's funeral
said, "this dream is amiss interpreted; it was a vision fair and fortunate. Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, in which so many smiling Romans bathed, signifies that from you Rome shall suck reviving blood."
Decius Brutus
The people who stood in the yard of the orchestra of the theater were called
groundlings
Caesar lived between these years
102-44 BC
Caesar's nephew
Who is Octavius Caesar
In Antony's eulogy, he refers to the conspirators as
honorable men
said, "let each man render me his bloody hand...that I did love thee Caesar O, tis true!"
Mark Antony
The partially roofed area of the theater was called
the heavens
Caesar is remembered most for being killed by people he considered to be his
friends
This character joined the conspiracy because Brutus asked
Caius Ligarius
Titinius sent Cassius a victory wreath in Act V. This is ironic because
it became a death wreath
said, "according to his virtue, let us use him with all respect and rites of burial. Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie, most like a soldier honorably. So call the field to rest and let's away. To part the glories of this happy day."
Octavius Caesar
Elizabethan costumes were period appropriate (example: Caesar would have worn a toga). True or False?
False
And you also Brutus
Who wrote the history of Julius Caesar from which Shakespeare based his play
Plutarch