Julius+Ceaser+(Shakespeare)+Notes

__Character List:__
 * Marcus Brutus
 * Julius Caesar
 * Antony
 * Cassius
 * Octavius
 * Cassava
 * Calpurnia
 * Portia
 * Flavius
 * Cicero
 * Lepidus
 * Murellus
 * Decius

__About the play:__ Julius Caesar is a successful, ambitious political leader of Rome. Caesar is warned that he must "beware the Ides of March". This prophecy comes true and Caesar is assassinated. Brutus (Marcus Brutus) is a respected Roman senator who helps plan and carry out Caesar's assassination which he believes will rid Rome of an over ambitious leader. Caesar's friend Antony (Mark Antony) is in charge of the funeral speech ("Friends, Romans, and countrymen…"). Brutus and Cassius then meet their unavoidable defeat. Brutus, the noble Roman, whose decision to take part in the assassination of Julius Caesar for the sake of freedom, plunges his country into a civil war. Shakespeare's play __Julius Caeser__, was considered a tragedy and was first performed between 1600 and 1601. It was first printed in the First Folio in 1623. This play took place in Verona and Mantua Italy, and is said to have 20,933 words spoken in the play.