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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
left as twin rulers of Rome. As one could imagine, each wanted to be the only
ruler, so a struggle broke out between them. Caesar defeated Pompey and his army
in an important battle, and went on later to defeat Pompey's two sons. It is
after that fifth and last triumph, at the time they are celebrating, when the
play opens. To understand the play even better, one should be aware of Brutus'
(one of the conspirators against Caesar) ancestors, the Tarquins. Nearly five......

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