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Julius Caesar: Background Knowledge Is Needed To Understand Play
Having a good background and knowledge of the history of Rome is very
helpful to understand Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. The setting of this
play took place hundreds of years ago, so if one knows a little bit of Roman
history, it would help very much in understanding what is going on in the play.
It is important to know about the connection, or relationship that there
once was between Caesar and Pompey. When Crassus died, Pompey and Caesar were
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