Willaim Shakespeare, the playwright, often took many facts from history to develop nearly all of his well-known works. Taking details from the life of the assassinated leader of Rome, Julius Caesar, he wrote one of his most famous plays. Julius Caesar is the play of conspirators who betray their leader by murdering him, resulting in a civil war. Caesar's friend, Antony, and the one that betrayed him, Brutus, fight for power for themselves after Caesar's …
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…would become. Antony then leds Rome into a civil war against the army of Brutus and Cassius, another conspirator. This results in both Brutus' and Cassius' suicides and leaves Rome under the rule of Antony, the new tyrant. All these results were a direct relation to the fact that Antony is able to gain the support of the people of Rome by belittling Brutus' speech with his facts, which shape the play of Julius Caesar.