Julius Caesar Pre test Flashcards
What century and society was it i the beginning of Elizabethan England?
16th century, agriculture
There was a struggle for…
Survival
Majority of population lived where
The South
Approximately 12000 people lived where
in London
Population during Elizabeth’s reign ____ by 1 million
Increased
Inside: no _____ or _____, lit by _____.
Running water, drainage, candles
Poorer people lived and cooked where
One single room (and slept above)
What plague killed 17000 in London
The Bubonic Plague
People traveled by
Horseback or boat
Major industry: ____ explored as ____ to Europe
Wool, cloth
Queen Elizabeth I was the daughter of _________ 2nd marriage to _____
King Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn
Knows as the _______ b/c she never married
Virgin Queen
Liked the consummate _____ of being Queen and didn’t want to share.
Power
Born in
1553
Mother was expected, Elizabeth declared illegitimate and banished from the court, later befriends who
Catherine Parr, Henry VI’s 6th wife
How old was Elizabeth when she became queen and what year was it?
25, 1558
Since she was ill-prepared for the enormity of the task which lay ahead, she had to maintain a …
Politically low profile
Her greatest talent was her unerring ability to
Choose and inspire capable men to govern her kingdom
What were powerful neighboring countries threatening?
Invasion
What tore at the very hearts and should of Elizabeth’s subjects?
Conflicting old and new religious ideologies
Who was England at war with, who were they allied with?
France, Scotland
Who broke with Rome, dissolved all monasteries, and established the Church of England
King Henry VIII
Who was a hard-line protestant
Edward VI
Who was a Catholic, had people burned at stake if they weren’t?
Mary I
Believed to be the greatest playwright in history
Shakespeare
Known for his ability to depict
Human character
Born when and where
April 23, 1564, in Stratford
Who were his parents?
John no Mary Shakespeare
Went to Stratford grammar school where he learned what languages
Latin and English
As a teen, became romantically involved with a woman 8 years older than him who did he marry in 1582?
Anne Hathaway
Spent most of his time where
London
Died when
April 23, 1616, at 52 years old
Shakespeare’s theater company was endowed by King Hames I with the status of what
The King’s Players
Shakespeare is said to have written how many plays and how many sonnets?
37 plays and 154 sonnets
Founding member of what acting company?
Lord Chamberlain’s men
Shakespeare is a shareholder of what theater built on Bankside?
The Globe Theater
When was Gaius Julius Caesar born
July 12, 100 BC
Supposedly a direct descendant from whom?
the Trojan prince Aeneas (son of Venus)
Married who?
Cornelia, daughter of the famous orator Cinna, at 17
lived during the harsh dictatorship of who
Lucious Cornelius Sulla
Fled where when father in law Cinna is killed
Asia
63 BC, elected as what?
Pontifex Maximum
Formed first Truimvirate with Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) andMarcus Licinus Crassus, he took over much of what country
Europe
Who sentenced Caesar to treason after he refused to return to Rome from fighting?
Pompey the Great
Ignites a civil war and defeats
Pompey
Declares what afterwards?
“Veni, Vidi, Vici.”
Was named dictator for life (Dictator Perpetuus) What close friend started conspiring with his friend and brother-in-law Cassius against Caesar.
Manus Brutus
What did the conspirers call themselves?
Liberators
When was Caesar assassinated?
March 15, Ides of March
How many times was Caesar stabbed according to most accounts? According to Shakespeare’s account?
23 times, 33 times
How many men either witnessed and/or participated in Caesar’s assassination?
Over 60
JC the play takes place when and where?
44 BC, Ancient Rome
Rome was the center of the empire stretching from where to where and where to where?
Britain to North Africa and Persia to Spain
Those favoring a more democratic rule feared that Caesar’s power would lead to what?
Enslavement of the Roman citizens by one of their own.
Julius Caesar (the play) portrays the shift from what Rome to what Rome and the Elizabethan era’s trend toward consolidated _______ power.
Republican, imperial, monarchical
In 1599, when the play was first performed, Queen Elizabeth I had already reigned for almost ___ years but because of her age ___ many believed her rein would soon end and she didn’t have any what?
Almost 40 years, 66, predecessors
Shakespeare shows how a leader’s. Power rests, to some degree on what favor of the populate?
The fickle favor.
