Shakespeare's Julius Caesar at Southwark Playhouse

caesar play Julius Caesar is a tragedy about the assassination of the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, and the aftermath of his death. The play is set in ancient Rome and focuses on the conspiracy to kill Caesar , led by the senators Brutus. Julius Caesar, tragedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, produced in 1599–1600 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from a transcript of a promptbook. Based on Sir Thomas North’s 1579 translation (via a French

caesar play, Rather than restoring Republican balance, Caesar’s murder unleashes a brutal civil war in which the self-interest and power of the warring parties are all that matter. The first scene of the play.