Category: Julius Caesar

Thank you to Andrea Walkden for guiding our way into Julius Caesar.

Andrea Walkden is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English at Queens College, CUNY. She is the author of Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England (Duquesne University Press, 2016), which won the 2017 John T. Shawcross Award of the Milton Society of America. 

Many thanks to my friend Joey Bianco of Whim Wham for the animated video elements.

Here are some helpful resources to enhance your experience of Julius Caesar:

• Julius Caesar resources, character map, and infographic from Course Hero.
• The full 1970 movie version of Julius Caesar starring Charlton Heston, Diana Rigg, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, and others is, for the moment, on YouTube.
• Here’s a fun synopsis of Julius Caesar, courtesy of Thug Notes. Or, here’s the Cliff’s Notes synopsis.
• Maybe cartoons are your thing? Here’s the animated William Shakespeare version of Julius Caesar.
• If you want to learn more about the actual Julius Caesar, History.com offers a good basic introduction.

Thanks for Dan Hainsworth for letting us use his Shakespeare icons, as shown above right.

Enjoy these Julius Caesar images from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Find more here.