Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar was based mainly on Plutarch's Life of Caesar. In his play he based the events mostly on Plutarchs' biography but he also made additions to Plutarch's story for his own dramatic purposes. Shakespeare's has made additions to three important scenes in the play, Calpurnia's dream, and Artemidorus' attempts to warn Caesar and the assassination scene to suit his dramatic purposes.
             Shakespeare's dramatization of the assassination scene in the play was very similar to Plutarch's account of the event. Once Caesar walks into the Senate all of the conspirators gather around him to petition for Metellus Cimbers' brother who was banished from Rome. All of the Conspirators support his cause for his brother. The conspirators anger Caesar and Caesar repeals their demand. Casca then strikes the first stab to Caesar and then the other conspirators follow. The two accounts differ when Shakespeare decides to omit what Caesar says to Casca, "Casca, you villain, what are you doing?" and what Casca says, "Help, Brother." For dramatic purposes, Shakespeare put in the phrase, "Et tu, Brute?" into his play, while Plutarch left out the phrase in his historical account. The facts that Shakespeare has taken from Plutarch's biography were, that the Conspirators were able to gather around Caesar by begging for the return of Metellus's banned brother. Shakespeare also took the!
             fact that Casca was the first to strike Caesar and that Brutus was the last person to strike Caesar.
             Calpurnia's dream in Shakespeare's play was a very different account from Plutarchs biography. In Plutarch's biography he described Calpurnia's dream "She was dreaming at that time that she was holding his murdered body in her arms and was weeping over it." In Shakespeare's play, Caesar's statue was pouring blood and the R...