In the funeral speech in Act 3, Scene 2, Antony repeats that Brutus is an honorable man.
According to the Whiteboard presentation on Renaissance literature, the popular style of this period tended toward variety, experimentation, and a lack of ornamentation.
Artimedoras’ letter in Act 2, Scene 3, is written to ease Caesar’s mind about a potential conspiracy.
Portia pleads with Brutus to explain why he seems so troubled and withdrawn in Act 2, Scene 1.
Caesar is played as a reasonable and generous and fit person in the play, the model of a noble king.
When Caesar sees that Brutus is one of the conspirators, he ceases struggling.
According to the Julius Caesar: Critical Guidevideo, Shakespeare took much of the detail for his play from Plutarch’s Lives of the Emperors.
In Act 2, Scene 2, on the morning of the Ides of March, Caesar considers not going to the Senate on that day.
Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to “Beware the hot-temper’d Brutus.”
According to the video Julius Caesar: Critical Guidea major theme in Julius Caesar is the corrupting influence of politics and power..