MRS. SHAW'S
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| show | Stratford-Upon-Avon
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| How did Shakespeare participate in drama? | show 🗑
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| show | tragedies, comedies, histories
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| During what age did Shakespeare live? | show 🗑
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| What are the dates of Shakespeare's life span? | show 🗑
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| show | Globe
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| What type of people made up Shakespeare's audience? | show 🗑
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| show | young boys
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| What do most historians believe to be true about the stage of the theater used by Shakespeare? | show 🗑
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| What was one important limitation of playwrights of Shakespeare's time? | show 🗑
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| Other than being a famous political figure, the real-life Julius Caesar is also known for his conquest of which country? | show 🗑
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| When did Caesar become the most important man in Rome? | show 🗑
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| show | dictator for life
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| show | 44 B.C.
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| show | Calpurnia
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| show | Artemidorus
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| show | Brutus
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| show | Ligarius
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| show | Portia
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| show | Casca
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| show | Lepidus
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| show | Cassius
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| Who kills himself / herself because Cassius is dead? | show 🗑
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| Who gives tribute to Brutus over his dead body? | show 🗑
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| show | deaf in one ear, "falling sickness"
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| show | if an act is honorable and for the public benefit, Brutus will do it in spite of personal consequences
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| Brutus goes through extreme mental torment or inner conflict trying to decide whether or not he should kill Caesar. Why? | show 🗑
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| What is Brutus' reason for killing Caesar? | show 🗑
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| Why does Brutus not insist on an oath among the conspirators? | show 🗑
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| show | Antony
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| show | flattery
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| show | Brutus
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| In Calpurnia's interpretation of her dream, what does the bleeding Caesar symbolize? | show 🗑
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| What pretense do the conspirators use to get near Caesar to stab him? | show 🗑
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| What conspirator gives Caesar the "unkindest cut of all"? | show 🗑
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| show | He sees Brutus among them.
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| show | When he is left alone with Caesar's body
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| When Antony asked to deliver a funeral oration, who was suspicious? | show 🗑
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| show | The crowd is base (common, uneducated)
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| What word in Antony's funeral oration is ironically used over and over? | show 🗑
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| show | condemning to death all who oppose the new triumvirate
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| show | distrust and lack of respect
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| What is one apparent reason for Brutus' and Cassius' quarrel? | show 🗑
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| show | Julius Caesar's spirit
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| How does Portia kill herself? | show 🗑
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| show | it shows that Caesar's spirit lives on
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| show | march his army to Philippi to meet Antony's army
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| What is the theme(s) of this play? | show 🗑
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| In what scene is found the peak of Brutus' power? | show 🗑
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| show | Brutus
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| Antony's greed over Caesar's will, his treatment of Lepidus, and his tribute to Brutus at the end of the play illustrates Shakespeare's genius in what area? | show 🗑
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| Is Titinius captured by the enemy army? | show 🗑
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| (T/F) The audience never sees Calpurnia's reaction to Caesar's death? | show 🗑
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| show | Brutus
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| "This was the noblest Roman of them all." Said by . . . | show 🗑
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| "Beware the Ides of March." Said by . . . | show 🗑
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| show | Cassius
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| "Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once." Said by . . . | show 🗑
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| "When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." Said by . . . | show 🗑
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| show | Caesar
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| "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus . . . " Said by or describes . . . | show 🗑
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| show | Cassius
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| "My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause 'til it come back to me." Said by or describes . . . | show 🗑
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| "Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf / But that he sees the Romans are but sheep." Said by or describes . . . | show 🗑
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| show | Caesar
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