This paper reviews William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar" and examines how it was accepted and
performed at the time
in Elizabethan England. It provides a history of the Globe theatre where many of Shakespeare's plays were
performed beginning with "Julius Caesar" and examines life in the theatre district of London at the time. It attempts to analyze why the play was so popular when it first came out and why a subject such as
tyrannicide was presentable in a country governed by a monarch. It looks at how it contained all of the political and social intrigues necessary to make it a timeless classic and all the puerile blood and gore that was needed to entertain a group of theater-hopping commoners in what was considered London's seediest neighborhood.