# Julius Caesar

**Author:** William Shakespeare
**Grade range:** Grades 9–11
**Age range:** 14–17
**First published:** 1599
**Page count:** 240
**Genre:** Drama
**ISBN-13:** `9780743482745`
**ISBN-10:** `0743482743`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/julius-caesar
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Shakespeare's dramatization of the conspiracy against Roman dictator Julius Caesar and its civic aftermath. The play is a staple of 9th- and 10th-grade English for rhetorical analysis (Antony's funeral oration is a classic persuasion exemplar) and is often the Shakespeare entry point in schools that defer Romeo and Juliet.

## Themes

- political ambition
- rhetoric and persuasion
- loyalty and betrayal
- honor
- civic violence
- fate vs agency

## Content notes

- assassination
- battle violence
- suicide

Common Sense Media age recommendation: 13+

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **recommended** · 9th grade · Florida — [source: B.E.S.T. Standards grade 9 rhetoric exemplar](https://www.fldoe.org/)
- **recommended** · 10th grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 9-10 drama exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 10th grade · Illinois — [source: Illinois Learning Standards grade 10 Shakespeare](https://www.isbe.net/)

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