Julius Caesar Flashcards

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1
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Julius Caesar parallels what world

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Elizabethean period

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James I

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3
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Who wrote Julius Caesar

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Shakespeare

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4
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Shakespeare emphasizes how leaders powers lays on the fickle power of who?

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Peasants, lower class, populace

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5
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Rome suffers between consatsnt infighting between which 2 groups

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weak senators, and military

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6
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Who is Brutus’ wife

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Portia

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7
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Where does Brutus see Caesar’s ghost second

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Philipi

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8
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Who stabbed Caeser first

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Casca

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9
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Caesar’s assasination date

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March 15 44 BC

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10
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“Speak hands for me!”

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Casca

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“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes?”

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Calpurnia

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“I have made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a voluntary wound Here in the thigh.”

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Portia

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13
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“Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.”

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Cassius

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“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.”

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Cassius

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“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.”

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Cassius

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16
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“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.”

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Brutus

17
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“And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg, Which hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.”

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Brutus

18
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“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

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Brutus

19
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“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.”

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Mark Antony

20
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who convinces Caesar to go to the capital?

A

Decius

21
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name for a roman soldier

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Plebien

22
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“Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.”

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Mark Antony

23
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“This was the most unkindest cut of all.”

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Mark Antony

24
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“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones;”

A

Mark Antony

25
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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.”

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Caesar

26
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“Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.”

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Caesar

27
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“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;”

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Caesar

28
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“Et tu, Brute? - Then fall Caesar!”

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Caesar

29
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“He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.”

who says this and who is it referring to

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said by Caesar
refers to Cassius

30
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“This was the noblest Roman of them all.”

who says this and who is it referring to

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said by Mark Antony
refers to Brutus

31
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“Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.”

who says this and who is it referring to

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said by Mark Antony
refers to Caesar

32
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“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus,”

who says this and who is it referring to

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said by Cassius
refers to Caesar

33
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“with this she fell distract, And, her attendants absent, swallowed fire.”

who says this and who is it referring to

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said by Brutus
refers to Portia

34
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“Yet I fear him, For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar–”

who says this and who is it referring to

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said by Cassius
refers to Mark Antony