Round 11: Tossup 13

A play set in this city ends with Aaron the Moor wishing he had done more evil, as he is sentenced (-5[1])to be buried chest-deep and starved. In that play set in this city, the queen Tamora eats pies containing her children, fulfilling the title character’s revenge scheme. While observing a festival in this city, a character remarks that “the fault ... is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” In this city, a man repeatedly calls his enemy an ‘honourable (10[1])man’ (10[1])in a speech that asks for his ‘friends’ and ‘countrymen’ to (10[1])‘lend me your ears.’ In this city, a leader (10[1])ignores a soothsayer’s warning to beware the Ides of March. (10[1])For 10 points, name this city, the setting of William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. ■END■

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