Julius Caesar
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Shakespeare’s drama about Caesar is one of his most famous plays, and it couldn't have been about a more interesting historical figure. While Caesar's life story was known by Shakespeare's contemporaries, his play was so influential that it has popularized certain aspects, especially people's belief that Caesar cried out "Et tu, Brute" as Brutus stabbed him. Shakespeare's retelling of Antony's funeral oration is also instantly recognizable.
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William Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, on England’s Avon River. When he was eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway. The couple had three children—an older daughter Susanna and twins, Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, Shakespeare’s only son, died in childhood. The bulk of Shakespeare’s working life was spent in the theater world of London, where he established himself professionally by the early 1590s. He enjoyed success not only as a playwright and poet, but also as an actor and shareholder in an acting company. Although some think that sometime between 1610 and 1613 Shakespeare retired from the theater and returned home to Stratford, where he died in 1616, others believe that he may have continued to work in London until close to his death.
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Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
JULIUS CAESAR
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William Shakespeare
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Julius Caesar
Characters of the Play
Act I
Scene I. Rome. A street.
Scene II. A public place.
Scene III. The same. A street.
Act II
Scene I. Rome. Brutus’s orchard.
Scene II. Caesar’s house.
Scene III. A street near the Capitol.
Scene IV. Another part of the same street, before the house of Brutus.
Act III
Scene I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.
Scene II. The Forum.
Scene III. A street.
Act IV
Scene I. A house in Rome.
Scene II. Camp near Sardis. Before Brutus’s tent.
Scene III. Brutus’s tent.
Act V
Scene I. The plains of Philippi.
Scene II. The same. The field of battle.
Scene III. Another part of the field.
Scene IV. Another part of the field.
Scene V. Another part of the field.
Julius Caesar
By
William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Published by Masquerade Press
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First published 1599
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JULIUS CAESAR
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CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY
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Julius Caesar, Roman statesman and general.
Octavius, Triumvir after Caesar’s death, later Augustus Caesar, first emperor of Rome.
Mark Antony, general and friend of Caesar, a Triumvir after his death.
Lepidus, third member of the Triumvirate.
Marcus Brutus, leader of the conspiracy against Caesar.
Cassius, instigator of the conspiracy.
Casca, Trebonius, Ligarius, Decius Brutus, Metellus Cimber, Cinna, conspirators against Caesar.
Calpurnia, wife of Caesar.
Portia, wife of Brutus.
Cicero, Popilius, senators.
Flavius, Marullus, tribunes.
Cato, Lucilius, Titinius, Messala, Volumnius, supportors of Brutus.
Artemidorus, a teacher of rhetoric.
Cinna The Poet.
Varro, Clitus, Claudius, Strato, Lucius, Dardanius, servants to Brutus.
Pindarus, servant to Cassius.
The Ghost of Caesar.
A Soothsayer.
A Poet.
Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and Servants
Scene: Rome, the conspirators’ camp near Sardis, and the plains of Philippi
ACT I
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SCENE I. ROME. A STREET.
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Enter Flavius, Marullus, and certain Commoners
Flavius
Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:
Is this a holiday? what! know you not,
Being mechanical, you ought not walk
Upon a labouring day without the sign
Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?
First Commoner
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Marullus
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What dost thou with thy best apparel on?
You, sir, what trade are you?
Second Commoner
Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.
Marullus
But what trade art thou? answer me directly.
Second Commoner
A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.
Marullus
What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?
Second Commoner
Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you.
Marullus
What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!
Second Commoner
Why, sir, cobble you.
Flavius
Thou art a cobbler, art thou?
Second Commoner
Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I meddle with no tradesman’s matters, nor women’s matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon neat’s leather have gone upon my handiwork.
Flavius
But wherefore art not in thy shop today?
Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?
Second Commoner
Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday, to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.
Marullus
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climb’d up to walls and battlements,
To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The livelong day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:
And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made an universal shout,
That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds
Made in her concave shores?
And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?
And do you now strew flowers in his way
That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood? Be gone!
Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague
That needs must light on this ingratitude.
Flavius
Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,
Assemble all the poor men of your sort;
Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears
Into the channel, till the lowest stream
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
Exeunt all the Commoners
See whether their basest metal be not moved;
They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.
Go you down that way towards the Capitol;
This way will I disrobe the images,