Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
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Key Facts
Title: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare
Type of book: play
Genre: history play/ tragedy
Original language: English
Written in: London, 1599
Originally published: 1623, in Shakespeare’s First Folio
Narrator: none
Tense: present
Protagonist: Brutus
Set in: the ancient Roman Empire, 44 BCE
Point of view: varies by scene
Climax: Believing the battle to be lost, Cassius commits suicide and declares that Caesar is now avenged.
Falling action: Titinius commits suicide; Brutus recognizes defeat and commits suicide; Antony and Octavius discover Brutus’s corpse and order that he be given an honorable burial.
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