Julius Caesar Conflicts

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The setting of “Julius Caesar” is in Rome in 50 BC, while the time William Shakespeare wrote the play in the 16th century. Despite the difference of time and place, Shakespeare wrote the play to reflect a series of questions about politics that were happening in his period of time. The most important one was “What happens when the monarch dies without a suitable successor?”. The rebellion that Shakespeare wrote in “Julius Caesar” resonated with the political turmoil in England then. At the time when Shakespeare lived, the English were governed by a monarch, Queen Elizabeth. She was 66-year-old and never got married. Some scholars said England was not an absolute monarchy; instead, it was a mixed-estate. Elizabeth I had to receive the consent