What is the play really about? Tragedy, history, problem play what is its genre? Who, if anyone, is the playOs hero? Is the murder of Caesar justified? Is Brutus a hypocritical Stoic? How does posthumous characterisation work? What makes the play so topical? ""Julius Caesar"" has long been regarded as one of ShakespeareOs greatest dramas. Some of its phrases live on famously: OBeware the Ides of MarchO; OEt tu, Brute?O; and OFriends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears O. When Cassius says, OHow many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, / In states unborn and accents yet...