Hushing the crowd, he asks the voice to speak again. Caesar asks Antony to touch Calpurnia in a fertility rite,Īs the music and merriment begins, Caesar hears someone shout his name. With Caesar is his wife Calpurnia, Mark Antony, senator Cicero, republican sympathizers Brutus, Cassius, Casca, Decius, Flavius, Marullus, and Brutus' wife Portia. The crowd scatters and Flavius and Marullus remove the decorations that cover the public statues.Ĭaesar passes through a public square to celebrate the Roman festival of Lupercalia 1. That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone! (40-56) That Tiber trembled underneath her banks, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome: The livelong day, with patient expectation, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Marullus reminds the cobblers and carpenters that Caesar has conquered another Roman, the noble Pompey: The tribunes, fearful of Caesar's ever-increasing power, berate the assembled commoners for their shortsightedness and fickle loyalties. The story opens on a street in Rome, where two tribunes, Flavius and Marullus, disperse a crowd that is celebrating the return of the greatest ruler of the day, Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar: Plot Summary Act 1, Scene 1 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar: Plot Summary
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