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The sources of Shakespeares plays

rch, where certain events aredescribed from different viewpoints, and used details from each account to create his own story.Due to this, it is not possible to move through the play almost scene by scene citing specific placeswhere Shakespeare took from Plutarch. Shakespeare uses Plutarchs mostly to guide his work,sometimes taking events, merging and compressing them, to create large and important sections ofthe plot. To best explain this, I have cited specific events where Shakespeare took from differentaccounts and combined them to create his scenes. The numbers in parentheses refer to the pages inWalter W. Skeats Shakespeares Plutarch, while portions of Julius Caesar are referred to by thetraditional method (act, scene, lines).The midpoint of the play is around the assassination of Caesar, in which Shakespearecombines sections that pertain to the assassination from both The Life of Julius Caesar (pg.100-101) and The Life of Marcus Brutus (pg. 119-120). Another example of this is seen in thefestival of Lupercalia in which Caesar was offered the crown three times and rejected it everytime. For this, Shakespeare combines Caesars account (pg. 99-100) with Antonys (pg. 164).There are many more examples, such as the events that precede Caesars murder. These arediscussed in both Caesars (pg. 97-100) and Brutus(pg. 117 and 118) lives. Even for the death ofBrutus, the events of both Antonys (pg. 171) and Brutus (pg. 149-151) stories are amalgamatedby Shakespeare. There are also events that come from only one story: the scenes that illustrate Caesarsambition and the conspirators attempts to indoctrinate Brutus come almost entirely from Caesarslife. Also, the formation of the conspiracy to kill Caesar, the publics response, Antonys addressat Caesars funeral, the appearance and effects of Caesars ghost, the disagreements betweenBrutus and Cassius, the battle of Brutus and Cassius with Antony and Octavius, and the eventsdealing with Brutus wife,...

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