How extensive was the violence in Julius Caesar?

Answer 1

In the play there is an onstage murder where a man is stabbed repeatedly and bleeds freely. At a later stage in the play his bloody garment is used as a prop for a famous speech. Later in the play there is a large battle, but we see more of people committing suicide by stabbing themselves or having their friends stab them, than we do of people being killed.

There are a number of references to offstage violence, not only in the battle scenes, but also in the killing of a poet with the wrong name, a woman committing suicide by swallowing hot coals, and the systematic slaughter of political enemies.