Introduction to William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Question 1

If you were looking for entertainment in Shakespare's London, you could..

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all of the above!

Question 2

William Shakespeare's version of Julius Caesar deviates from history because...

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it allows for more spectacle., he wants the audience to understand & relate to the story., minimizing the # of locations made staging the play easier., making the events of months take days heightens the tension.

Question 3

In the play, Julius Caesar is...

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a crucial symbol that is only on stage occasionally.

Question 4

What is a groundling?

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an audience member with little money, a person in the front row at the Globe

Question 5

When he died, William Shakespeare's work was...

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very popular in England

Question 6

Shakespeare's plays were often performed...

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at the Globe Theater, at the royal court

Question 7

William Shakespeare was...

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married to a pregnant, 26 year old at 18., the son of a glove-maker, educated at a grammar school, baptized April 26, 1564; he was likely born around the 23rd.

Question 8

During Shakespeare's life, the theater was...

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enthusiastically supported by Queen Elizabeth, attended by rich and poor, educated and illiterate alike, very popular, considered by some to be immoral

Question 9

There have been performances of Julius Caesar that...

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compared Caesar to JFK and George W. Bush., featured only women, featured Edwin & John Wilkes Booth as Brutus & Marc Antony., compared Caesar to Mussolini, directed by O. Welles in 1937.

Question 10

To Elizabethans, Julius Caesar's portrait of a contested political succession likely felt...

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like exactly the kind of thing that can destroy an empire., familiar; what happens when your queen has no children?

Question 11

William Shakespeare lived in...

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16th century England

Question 12

In Shakespeare's time, the audience at a theatrical performance was...

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often raucous.

Question 13

William Shakespeare's 1599 play Julius Caesar was...

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filled with innaccuracies and anachronisms .

Question 14

Performances at the Globe Theater...

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only featured male actors, lacked curtains and rarely had much scenery, only happened in daylight, always ended in a dance

Question 15

The play inspired the title for the novel and film The Fault in Our Stars.

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True

Introduction to William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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Introduction to William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

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