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Essay Archive - Julius Ceasar: Overview
Julius Ceasar: Overview
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is the story of the resulting conflicts from
the assassination of perpetual dictator and Roman emperor, Julius Caesar. A
great friend of Caesar, Mark Antony, comes to the senate to see the dead
body of their dictator. He pretends to not be angry at those who took part
in the assassination, and asks to speak at his funeral, a request which he
is granted. However, after the men leave, he begins a soliloquy in which he
suggests that Caesar's spirit will take revenge upon his murderers and
invoke a war involving the entire country. Antony begins the revenge of his
deat....
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