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Plus, the origin behind the phrase 'Beware the Ides of March.'
[20] This meeting is famously dramatised in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March." [21] [22] The Roman biographer Suetonius [23] identifies the "seer" as a haruspex named Spurinna. Caesar's assassination opened the final chapter in the crisis of the Roman Republic.
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Palladis Tamia (1598) title page. Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury; Being the Second Part of Wits Commonwealth is a 1598 commonplace book written by the minister Francis Meres.It is important in English literary history as the first critical account of the poems and early plays of William Shakespeare.
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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.
—William Shakespeare [1] Shakespeare 's Sonnet 58 is a syntactic and thematic continuation of Sonnet 57 . More generally, it belongs to the large group of sonnets written to a young, aristocratic man, with whom the poem's speaker shares a tempestuous relationship.
Sonnet 62 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, addressed to the young man with whom Shakespeare shares an intimate but tormented connection. This sonnet brings together a number of themes that run through the cycle: the speaker's awareness of social and ...