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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Chapter 480: Dramatis Personæ
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This collection gathers dramatic works and lyrical poems spanning comedies, tragedies, histories, and a sonnet sequence, presenting plays in verse and prose alongside narrative poems. The pieces examine human experience through recurring themes of love, ambition, jealousy, power, fate, and the tension between appearance and reality, moving between comic confusion and tragic collapse. Language and theatrical craft are central, employing vivid imagery, rhetorical invention, puns, and varied poetic forms to probe identity, political conflict, and moral choice across intimate moments and public spectacle.

Contents

ACT I
Scene I. Rome. A street
Scene II. The same. A public place
Scene III. The same. A street

ACT II
Scene I. Rome. Brutus’ orchard
Scene II. A room in Caesar’s palace
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
Scene II. The same. The Forum
Scene III. The same. A street

ACT IV
Scene I. A room in Antony’s house
Scene II. Before Brutus’ tent, in the camp near Sardis
Scene III. Within the tent of Brutus

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 Personæ

JULIUS CAESAR
OCTAVIUS CAESAR, Triumvir after his death.
MARCUS ANTONIUS, ” ” ”
M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS, ” ” ”
CICERO, PUBLIUS, POPILIUS LENA, Senators.
MARCUS BRUTUS, Conspirator against Caesar.
CASSIUS, ” ” ”
CASCA, ” ” ”
TREBONIUS, ” ” ”
LIGARIUS,” ” ”
DECIUS BRUTUS, ” ” ”
METELLUS CIMBER, ” ” ”
CINNA, ” ” ”
FLAVIUS, tribune
MARULLUS, tribune
ARTEMIDORUS, a Sophist of Cnidos.
A Soothsayer
CINNA, a poet.
Another Poet.
LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, young CATO, and VOLUMNIUS, Friends to Brutus and Cassius.
VARRO, CLITUS, CLAUDIUS, STRATO, LUCIUS, DARDANIUS, Servants to Brutus
PINDARUS, Servant to Cassius

CALPHURNIA, wife to Caesar
PORTIA, wife to Brutus

The Ghost of Caesar

Senators, Citizens, Soldiers, Commoners, Messengers, and Servants.

SCENE: Rome, the conspirators’ camp near Sardis, and the plains of Philippi.