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  2. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears - Wikipedia

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    "Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.

  3. Julius Caesar (play) - Wikipedia

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    Within the Tent of Brutus: Enter the Ghost of Caesar, Julius Caesar, Act IV, Scene III, a 1905 portrait by Edwin Austin Abbey. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Ivlivs Cæsar), often shortened to Julius Caesar, is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599.

  4. Et tu, Brute? - Wikipedia

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    The quote appears in Act 3 Scene 1 of William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, [1] where it is spoken by the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, at the moment of his assassination, to his friend Marcus Junius Brutus, upon recognizing him as one of the assassins.

  5. Globe Theatre - Wikipedia

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    Like all the other theatres in London, the Globe was closed down by the outbreak of the First English Civil War, when the Long Parliament closed all London theatres by an ordinance dated 2 September 1642. [28] It was pulled down in 1644–45 (the commonly cited document dating the act to 15 April 1644 is not reliable [29]) to make room for ...

  6. Caesar (Mercury Theatre) - Wikipedia

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    Cassius (Martin Gabel) and Brutus (Orson Welles) in Caesar (Act I, Scene 2) Unable to attend on opening night, drama critic John Mason Brown asked to review the matinee preview of Caesar—"a troublesome request", wrote producer John Houseman, but one that was granted. At the end of the performance, Brown asked to be taken backstage.

  7. Acta Caesaris - Wikipedia

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    The Acta Caesaris (Acts of Caesar) are the published and unpublished legal acts that were passed or planned by Julius Caesar in his position as Roman dictator. Notably, the Acta Caesaris included: Certain acts passed and already enforced, such as the conferment of numerous offices to members of the populares and the optimates .

  8. First Folio - Wikipedia

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    Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is a collection of plays by William Shakespeare, commonly referred to by modern scholars as the First Folio, [a] published in 1623, about seven years after Shakespeare's death.

  9. Shakespearean fool - Wikipedia

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    Citizen in Julius Caesar; Cloten in Cymbeline; Clown in Othello; Clown in Titus Andronicus; Costard in Love's Labours Lost – This clown is referred to as a "fool" in Act V, scene ii, but the word in this context simply refers to a silly man. He is not simple enough to be considered a natural fool, and not witty enough to be considered an ...