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Beware the Ides of March, the soothsayer urges Julius Caesar in Shakespeares Tragedy of Julius Caesar (act I, scene ii). Despite the forewarning, Caesar is stabbed in the back by his friend Marcus Brutus. Caesar falls and utters his famous last words, Et tu, Brute? (And you, Brutus?) Shakespeares source for the play was Thomas Norths Lives of the Nobel Grecians and Romans, which detailed the murder of Caesar in 44 B.C. Caesars friends and associates feared his growing power and his recent self-comparison to Alexander the Great and felt he must die for the good of Rome. Norths work translated a French version of Plutarch, which itself had been translated from Latin. Shakespeares version was written about 1599 and performed at the newly built Globe Theater.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 05:43:15 +0000

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