Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599.
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Shakespeare\'s play keeps this debate alive.
Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain.
For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar\'s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians.
Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599
