Julius Caesar--Shakespeare's purpose(s)

What do you think Shakespeare was trying to get across to his readers in the late 1500s and early 1600s in regard to politics and power, especially if you understand that there was some political turmoil during this time in England?
(Shakespeare’s fellow playwrights, well versed in ancient Greek and Roman history, would very likely have detected parallels between Julius Caesar’s portrayal of the shift from republican to imperial Rome and the Elizabethan era’s trend toward consolidated monarchal power. In 1599, when the play was first performed, Queen Elizabeth I had sat on the throne for nearly forty years, enlarging her power at the expense of the aristocracy and the House of Commons. As she was then sixty-six years old, her reign seemed likely to end soon, yet she lacked any heirs (as did Julius Caesar). Many feared that her death would plunge England into the kind of chaos that had plagued England during the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses. In an age when censorship would have limited direct commentary on these worries, Shakespeare could nevertheless use the story of Caesar to comment on the political situation of his day.)**
**Taken from Sparknotes




 ).What specific evidence supports your ideas?  What messages can YOU take from the play that could apply to your own life?
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