History behind Julius Caesar

History behind Julius Caesar

1. William Shakespeare

   • From roughly 1594 onward William Shakespeare was an important member of lord Chamberlains men of theatrical player
   • William was the third child
   • William wrote 37 plays
   • Plays we wrote: Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet
   • William died April 23,1616
   • William was born April 23,1564
   • Him and his wife has 3 kids and one of them died
   • William attended the Kings New School, in Stratford

2. The Renaissance

   • Was a period in European history
   • It ended during the 1500s, when the modern era began
   • During the Renaissance there was a rebirth in ancient Greece and Rome
   • It began in he 1300s, during the ate middle ages
   • Renaissance means :rebirth" in French

3. Queen Elizabeth 1

   • Tudor dynasty, reigned for 45 years
   • Parents: Henry Vll and Anne Boleyn
   • Sister: Princess Margret, Countess of Snowdon
   • Died MArch 24,1603
   • Nickname: Bloody Mary
   • She was made queen November 7,1558 she was 25 years old
   • Never married and no kids
   • Helped defeat the Spanish Armada
   • After she died the title went to the King of Scotland, James VI
   • She is pichered wearing thick white makeup she covered herself because she had scars from small pocks

4. Theater in Elizabethan England

   • The plays were often coarse and boisterous
   • Covers all asects of the Elizabethan Theatre
   • Any strangers were treated with suspiicion
   • Started with Wandering Minstrels who moves from one castle and town to the next
   • inn-yard, playhouse, and the theaters
   • Period between 1562 and 1642
   • The period starts before the establishment of the first permanent theatres
   • Did the same play 2 days in a row
   • 23 differnt plays
   • IN 1574 the law said you need color, style, and fabric

5. Dramatic Structure

   • There was no narrator
   • The climax was Cassius;'s death
   • Setting 44 b.c
   • Setting (place) Ancient Rome
   • Themes Fate versus free will