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Julius Caesar
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(1599) Tragedy by *Shakespeare, depicting the events before and after the assassination in 44 BC of *Julius Caesar. He goes to the Capitol in Rome in spite of the warning of a soothsayer to 'beware the ides of March' (March 15, the day on which he was killed). The central character is Brutus, a republican who feels that by killing Caesar he is saving Rome from dictatorship. He dies in the ensuing civil war after the skilful oratory of Mark Antony ('Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears') has turned public opinion against the conspirators.
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