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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
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William Shakespeare is almost universally considered the English language's most famous and greatest writer. In fact, the only people who might dispute that are those who think he didn't write the surviving 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems still attributed to him. Even people who never get around to reading his works in class are instantly familiar with titles like King Lear, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo & Shakespeare.


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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PublisherKrill Press
Release dateFeb 13, 2016
ISBN9781531203412
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is the world's greatest ever playwright. Born in 1564, he split his time between Stratford-upon-Avon and London, where he worked as a playwright, poet and actor. In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare died in 1616 at the age of fifty-two, leaving three children—Susanna, Hamnet and Judith. The rest is silence.

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    Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare

    JULIUS CAESAR

    ..................

    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

    New York City, NY

    First published 1599

    Copyright © Masquerade Press, 2015

    All rights reserved

    Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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    JULIUS CAESAR

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    CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY

    ..................

    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,

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