⌜Scene 2 ⌝ Enter Caesar, Antony for the course, Calphurnia, Portia,ĭecius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, a Soothsayer Īfter them Marullus and Flavius ⌜and Commoners. Who else would soar above the view of menĨ0 And keep us all in servile fearfulness. These growing feathers plucked from Caesar’s wing So do you too, where you perceive them thick. I’ll aboutħ5 And drive away the vulgar from the streets Go you down that way towards the Capitol.ħ0 If you do find them decked with ceremonies.īe hung with Caesar’s trophies. They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. See whe’er their basest mettle be not moved. Go, go, good countrymen, and for this faultĭraw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tearsĦ5 Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,Ħ0 That needs must light on this ingratitude. That comes in triumph over Pompey’s blood? To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome.ĥ0 That Tiber trembled underneath her banksĥ5 And do you now strew flowers in his way The livelong day, with patient expectation, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops,Ĥ5 Your infants in your arms, and there have sat Have you climbed up to walls and battlements, O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? Make holiday to see Caesar and to rejoice in his Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?ĬOBBLER Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to Neat’s leather have gone upon my handiwork.ģ0 But wherefore art not in thy shop today? Surgeon to old shoes: when they are in great danger,
Women’s matters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a Brutus commits suicide, praised by Antony as “the noblest Roman of them all.”ĬOBBLER Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me.Ģ0 What mean’st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucyĬOBBLER Truly, sir, all that I live by is with theĢ5 awl. In the battle which follows, Cassius, misled by erroneous reports of loss, persuades a slave to kill him Brutus’s army is defeated. Brutus and Cassius escape as Antony joins forces with Octavius Caesar.Įncamped with their armies, Brutus and Cassius quarrel, then agree to march on Antony and Octavius. Antony uses a funeral oration to turn the citizens of Rome against them. At the Senate, the conspirators stab Caesar to death. A conspirator, Decius Brutus, persuades him to go to the Senate with the other conspirators and his friend, Mark Antony. On the day of the assassination, Caesar plans to stay home at the urging of his wife, Calphurnia. Cassius and others convince Brutus to join a conspiracy to kill Caesar. Brutus, Caesar’s friend and ally, fears that Caesar will become king, destroying the republic. As the action begins, Rome prepares for Caesar’s triumphal entrance. The first part of the play leads to his death the second portrays the consequences. Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini consciously echoed Rome, seeing himself as a new Caesar, whose murder he called a ‘disgrace for humanity.’ The word fascist is derived from fasces, symbolic Roman bunches of sticks – together we are stronger.Ĭaesarism is a recognised form of government behind a powerful, usually military leader – Napoleon was arguably a Caesarist and Benjamin Disraeli was accused of it.Caesar’s assassination is just the halfway point of Julius Caesar. Caesar’s example has inspired leaders to try to emulate himĮven the terms Tzar and Kaiser derive from his name.
The fact that he wrote so well about his own life, particularly in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico, a history of the Gallic Wars, has meant that his story was easily passed on in his own words. To the Romans Caesar was undoubtedly a figure of great importance. Caesar’s historical influence is greatly increased by his own writings Recorded British history is reckoned to start with the successful Roman takeover in 43 AD, something Caesar set the grounds for. His writings on Britain and the Britons are among the very first and provide a wide-ranging view of the islands. He introduced Britain to the world and to historyĬaesar never achieved a full invasion of Britain, but his two expeditions to the islands mark an important turning point. Featuring Dr Emma Southon and Professor Marco Conti. This documentary tells the story of Julius Caesar's assassination on the 'Ides of March' in 44 BC.