Julius Caesar

To view the Julius Caesar Project full screen, click here.

Secondary Sources:

• Short Summary: Click here

• Image collection from the Folger Library about this play: Click here

  • Rituals in Julius Caesar:

    • Blood Rituals: Here.

    • Passion: Here.

    • Ashura Festival: Here.

• Act 3, Scene 2 RSC Funeral Oration: Click here.

• Fact or Fiction? Should Shakespeare have embellished or changed his historical sources?

  • NBC Nightly News Story (Feb. 21, 2013): Click Here

• Julius Caesar with an African Accent: Click here

• Class Wiki: click here

  • Level one: Actual History

    • Sources: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/caesar_julius.shtml

    • http://www.biography.com/people/julius-caesar-9192504

  • Level two: Historical Sources

    • Sources:

      • http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Caesar*.html

      • http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/caesar.html

  • Level three: Play

    • Sources:

      • http://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html

  • Level four: Interpretation over Time

    • Sources: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/JC/intro/CriticalSurvey/default/

  • Level five: Current

    • Sources: YOU and current events (http://www.npr.org OR http://www.nytimes.com)

    • http://www.bam.org/theater/2013/julius-caesar

• What is Honor? The Art of Manliness Article: Click here

• Modern Interpretation of "Honor" from the US Marines: Click here

• Secondary Sources:

  • Cicero, On Obligation, go to #31-33: Here

  • Marcus Aurelius

  • Victor Hugo

  • George R.R. Martin