Julius Caesar: Background Knowledge Is Needed To Understand Play

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monarch, and it was formally enacted into
law that if any man wish that the monarchy should be restored, he was to be
declared a public enemy and be put to death.
Brutus and the rest of the conspirators had killed Caesar, but they made
an error, which was letting Mark Antony, one of Caesar's friends live. Antony
later united with Bepidus and Octavius, to go against Brutus, Cassius, and the
other conspirators. At the battle of Philippi, in Thrace, Brutus and Cassius
took their own lives when their army was destroyed. Just as Caesar and Pompey
had struggled for the world when Cassus died, so now when Bepidus died, Antony
and Octavius were left confronting each other. Octavius held Rome and Europe;
Antony held the East. Antony allied with Cleopatra and were planning to rule the
world from Alexandria, Cleopatra's capital. Their navies met Octavius' off the
shore of Actium, in Greece. Octavius conquered decisively, and both Antony and
Cleopatra, even as Brutus and Cassius had done eleven ...

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