Tragedy · c. 1599
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Rome's leaders fear that Julius Caesar, fresh from his triumph over Pompey's sons, will make himself king. Cassius draws the honourable Brutus into a conspiracy, and the conspirators stab Caesar in the Capitol on the Ides of March. Brutus justifies the killing to the crowd, but Mark Antony's funeral speech turns the people against the assassins and they are driven from the city. Brutus and Cassius quarrel, then are overwhelmed by Antony and Octavius at Philippi, where both die by their own hands.
Contents · 19 parts
- Persons of the Play28 lines
- Act I, Scene 178 lines
- Act I, Scene 2about 330 lines
- Act I, Scene 3about 180 lines
- Act II, Scene 1about 370 lines
- Act II, Scene 2about 150 lines
- Act II, Scene 316 lines
- Act II, Scene 457 lines
- Act III, Scene 1about 330 lines
- Act III, Scene 2about 280 lines
- Act III, Scene 337 lines
- Act IV, Scene 158 lines
- Act IV, Scene 263 lines
- Act IV, Scene 3about 370 lines
- Act V, Scene 1about 140 lines
- Act V, Scene 210 lines
- Act V, Scene 3about 130 lines
- Act V, Scene 440 lines
- Act V, Scene 597 lines