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Well, it was always difficult to find stories which Shakespeare and the many other playwrights working in London at the time could turn into plays. One source was Roman history. Shakespeare and most others of his time had studied Plutarch in school and so knew the history of Julius Caesar. It made for fairly exciting theatre. Ben Jonson wrote a play about Sejanus and another about Catiline. Shakespeare wasn't the only playwright writing about the Roman period.

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