Brown: ‘Et Tu Brute, Beware the Ides of March’ – did Caesar drink a poison first?

Brown: ‘Et Tu Brute, Beware the Ides of March’ – did Caesar drink a poison first?

Hauntingly, Shakespeare presents us with the horrific premonition of Calpurnia and her unheeded warning to her husband. Thus, one is prompted to ask if Julius Caesar knowingly allowed himself to be murdered. Calpurnia beseeches Caesar: Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet now they fright me. There is one within, Besides the things that we have heard and seen, Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. A lioness hath whelped in the street…