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    Julius Caesar, with line numbers
    Julius Caesar, with line numbers
    Julius Caesar, with line numbers
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    Julius Caesar, with line numbers

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    The classic tragedy. According to Wikipedia: "Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the conspiracy against the Roman dictator of the same name, his assassination and its aftermath. It is one of several Roman plays that he wrote, based on true events from Roman history, which also include Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra. Although the title of the play is Julius Caesar, Caesar is not the main character in its action; he appears in only three scenes, and is killed at the beginning of the third act. The protagonist of the play is Marcus Brutus, and the central psychological drama is his struggle between the conflicting demands of honor, patriotism, and friendship. The play reflected the general anxiety of England over succession of leadership. At the time of its creation and first performance, Queen Elizabeth, a strong ruler, was elderly and had refused to name a successor, leading to worries that a civil war similar to that of Rome might break out after her death."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455389544
    Julius Caesar, with line numbers
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    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1564. The date of his birth is not known but is traditionally 23 April, St George's Day. Aged 18, he married a Stratford farmer's daughter, Anne Hathaway. They had three children. Around 1585 William joined an acting troupe on tour in Stratford from London, and thereafter spent much of his life in the capital. A member of the leading theatre group in London, the Chamberlain's Men, which built the Globe Theatre and frequently performed in front of Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare wrote 36 plays and much poetry besides. He died in 1616.

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      Julius Caesar, with line numbers - William Shakespeare

      Julius Caesar By William Shakespeare

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Other tragedies by William Shakespeare:

      Antony and Cleopatra

      Coriolanus

      Hamlet

      King Lear

      Macbeth

      Othello

      Romeo and Juliet

      Timon of Athens

      Titus Andronicus

      Troilus and Cressida

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      Dramatis Personae

      Julius Caesar

      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.

      Dramatis Personae

      Julius Caesar (Caesar:)

      Triumvirs After Death Of Julius Caesar:

      Octavius Caesar (Octavius:)

      Marcus Antonius (Antony:)

      M. Aemilius Lepidus (Lepidus:)

      Senators:

      Cicero

      Publius

      Popilius Lena (Popilius:)

      Conspirators Against Julius Caesar:

      Marcus Brutus (Brutus:)

      Cassius

      Casca

      Trebonius

      Ligarius

      Decius Brutus

      Metellus Cimber

      Cinna

      Tribunes:

      Flavius

      Marullus

      Artemidorus Of Cnidos A Teacher Of Rhetoric. (Artemidorus:)

      A SOOTHSAYER (SOOTHSAYER:)

      Cinna A Poet. (Cinna The Poet:)

      Another Poet (Poet:)

      Friends To Brutus And Cassius:

      Lucilius

      Titinius

      Messala

      Young Cato (Cato:)

      Volumnius

      SERVANTs To Brutus:

      Varro

      Clitus

      Claudius

      Strato

      Lucius

      Dardanius

      Pindarus SERVANT To Cassius.

      Calpurnia Wife To Caesar.

      Portia Wife To Brutus.

      Senators, Citizens, Guards, Attendants, &c.

      (FIRST CITIZEN:)

      (SECOND CITIZEN:)

      (THIRD CITIZEN:)

      (FOURTH CITIZEN:)

      (First Commoner:)

      (Second Commoner:)

      (SERVANT:)

      (First Soldier:)

      (Second Soldier:)

      (Third Soldier:)

      (Messenger:)

      JULIUS CAESAR

      SCENE  Rome: the neighbourhood of Sardis: the neighbourhood of Philippi.

      ACT I

      SCENE I.  Rome. A street.

       [Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners]

      (1) 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?

      (10) 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.

      (20) 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.

      (30) 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,

      (40) 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

      (50) 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,

      (60) 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,

       If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.

      MARULLUS May we do so?

      (70) You know it is the feast of Lupercal.

      FLAVIUS It is no matter; let no images

       Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,

       And drive away the vulgar from the streets:

       So do you too, where you perceive them thick.

       These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing

       Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,

       Who else would soar above the view of men

       And keep us all in servile fearfulness.

       [Exeunt]

      SCENE II.  A public place.

       [Flourish. Enter CAESAR; ANTONY, for the course; CALPURNIA, PORTIA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CICERO, BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and CASCA; a great crowd following, among them a SOOTHSAYER]

      (1) CAESAR Calpurnia!

      CASCA          Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.

      CAESAR Calpurnia!

      CALPURNIA Here, my lord.

      CAESAR Stand you directly in Antonius' way,

       When he doth run his course. Antonius!

      ANTONY Caesar, my lord?

      CAESAR Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,

       To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,

       The barren, touched in this holy chase,

       Shake off their sterile curse.

      ANTONY I shall remember:

      (10) When Caesar says 'do this,' it is

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