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` THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR `
` `
` by William Shakespeare `
` `
` `
` `
` Dramatis Personae `
` `
` 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, conspirator against Caesar `
` TREBONIUS, " " " `
` CAIUS LIGARIUS, " " " `
` DECIUS BRUTUS, " " " `
` METELLUS CIMBER, " " " `
` CINNA, " " " `
` CALPURNIA, wife of Caesar `
` PORTIA, wife of Brutus `
` CICERO, senator `
` POPILIUS, " `
` POPILIUS LENA, " `
` FLAVIUS, tribune `
` MARULLUS, tribune `
` CATO, supportor of Brutus `
` LUCILIUS, " " " `
` TITINIUS, " " " `
` MESSALA, " " " `
` VOLUMNIUS, " " " `
` ARTEMIDORUS, a teacher of rhetoric `
` CINNA, a poet `
` VARRO, servant to Brutus `
` CLITUS, " " " `
` CLAUDIO, " " " `
` STRATO, " " " `
` LUCIUS, " " " `
` DARDANIUS, " " " `
` PINDARUS, servant to Cassius `
` The Ghost of Caesar `
` A Soothsayer `
` A Poet `
` Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and `
` Servants `
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` SCENE: Rome, the conspirators' camp near Sardis, and the plains `
` of Philippi. `
` `
` `
` ACT I. SCENE I. `
` Rome. A street. `
` `
` 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 `
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` 1599 `
` `
` `
` THE TRAGEDY OF JULIUS CAESAR `
` `
` by William Shakespeare `
` `
` `
` `
` Dramatis Personae `
` `
` 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, conspirator against Caesar `
` TREBONIUS, " " " `
` CAIUS LIGARIUS, " " " `
` DECIUS BRUTUS, " " " `
` METELLUS CIMBER, " " " `
` CINNA, " " " `
` CALPURNIA, wife of Caesar `
` PORTIA, wife of Brutus `
` CICERO, senator `
` POPILIUS, " `
` POPILIUS LENA, " `
` FLAVIUS, tribune `
` MARULLUS, tribune `
` CATO, supportor of Brutus `
` LUCILIUS, " " " `
` TITINIUS, " " " `
` MESSALA, " " " `
` VOLUMNIUS, " " " `
` ARTEMIDORUS, a teacher of rhetoric `
` CINNA, a poet `
` VARRO, servant to Brutus `
` CLITUS, " " " `
` CLAUDIO, " " " `
` STRATO, " " " `
` LUCIUS, " " " `
` DARDANIUS, " " " `
` PINDARUS, servant to Cassius `
` The Ghost of Caesar `
` A Soothsayer `
` A Poet `
` Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and `
` Servants `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` <<THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION OF THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM `
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` SCENE: Rome, the conspirators' camp near Sardis, and the plains `
` of Philippi. `
` `
` `
` ACT I. SCENE I. `
` Rome. A street. `
` `
` 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 `
`