Julius Caesar Flashcards
Julius Caesar parallels what world
Elizabethean period
James I
Who wrote Julius Caesar
Shakespeare
Shakespeare emphasizes how leaders powers lays on the fickle power of who?
Peasants, lower class, populace
Rome suffers between consatsnt infighting between which 2 groups
weak senators, and military
Who is Brutus’ wife
Portia
Where does Brutus see Caesar’s ghost second
Philipi
Who stabbed Caeser first
Casca
Caesar’s assasination date
March 15 44 BC
“Speak hands for me!”
Casca
“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes?”
Calpurnia
“I have made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a voluntary wound Here in the thigh.”
Portia
“Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.”
Cassius
“He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake. Tis true this god did shake.”
Cassius
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.”
Cassius