{"product_id":"julius-caesar-isbn-9780553212969","title":"Julius Caesar","description":"In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings–“Beware the ides of March”–and of moving public oratory, “Friends, Romans, countrymen!” Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach Edition Includes:\u003cbr\u003e• Comprehensive explanatory notes \u003cbr\u003e• Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship \u003cbr\u003e• Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English\u003cbr\u003e• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories \u003cbr\u003e• An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWilliam Shakespeare: Complete Works\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Remarkable . . . makes Shakespeare’s extraordinary accomplishment more vivid than ever.”—James Shapiro, professor, Columbia University, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eA Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A feast of literary and historical information.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e (1564–1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare's vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bevington\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the world's most well-respected Shakespearean scholars. He has served as an editor of several widely acclaimed anthologies, such as \u003ci\u003eEnglish Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology, Bantam Shakespeare, Medieval Drama, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare. \u003c\/i\u003eSince 1967 Bevington has taught at the University of Chicago, specializing in Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as Renaissance, medieval, and Western drama. Bevington serves as the chair of theater and performance studies and is a Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the humanities and in English language and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Scott Kastan\u003c\/b\u003e is a noted scholar of early modern English literature and culture. He is the George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University, where he specializes in Shakespeare, Milton, and literary history. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2008, Kastan taught at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, University College London, Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Copenhagen, and the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Kastan has served as an editor on many Elizabethan, Renaissance, and Shakespearean anthologies. His own scholarly publications include \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Shapes of Time, Shakespeare After Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare and the Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Dramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejulius caesar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCALPERNIA, Caesar's wife \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emark antony, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOCTAVIOUS CAESAR,     triumvirs after Caesar's death\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLEPIDUS, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARCUS BRUTUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePORTIA, Brutus's wife\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAIUS CASSIUS, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASCA, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDECIUS BRUTUS, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCINNA,  conspirators with Brutus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMETELLUS CIMBER, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTREBONIUS,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAIUS LIGARIUS, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCICERO, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePUBLIUS,         senators\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePOPILIUS LENA, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS,  tribunes of the people\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e        \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARULIUS, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOOTHSAYER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eARTEMIDORUS, a teacher of rhetoric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCINNA, a poet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother POET\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLUCILIUS,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTITINIUS, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMESSALA, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYOUNG CATO, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVOLUMNIUS,       officers and soldiers in the army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVARRO,   of Brutus and Cassius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCLAUDIUS, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCLITUS,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDARDANIUS, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLABEO,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePINDARUS, Cassius's servant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLUCIUS, Brutus's servants\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estrato, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaesar's SERVANT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntony's SERVANT \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOctavius's SERVANT \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCARPENTER \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOBBLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive PLEBEIANS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree SOLDIERS in Brutus's army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo SOLDIERS in Antony's army\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMESSENGER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGHOST of Caesar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSenators, Plebeians, Officers, Soldiers, and Attendants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSCENE: Rome; the neighborhood of Sardis;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe neighborhood of Philippi]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1 Location: Rome. A street.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 mechanical of the artisan class\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 sign garb and implements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 in . . . workman (1) as far as skilled work is concerned (2) compared with a skilled worker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 cobbler (1) one who works with shoes (2) bungler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14 soles (With pun on \"souls.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 naughty good-for-nothing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e16 out out of temper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17 out having worn-out shoes.   mend you (1) cure your bad temper (2) repair your shoes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19 cobble you mend your shoes. (The meaning \"to pelt with stones\" also suggests itself here, though perhaps it was not in general use until later in the seventeenth century.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1 * Enter Flavius, Marullus, and certain commoners over the stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHence! Home, you idle creatures, get you home!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs this a holiday? What, know you not,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeing mechanical, you ought not walk 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon a laboring day without the sign 4\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf your profession?--Speak, what trade art thou?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCARPENTER  Why, sir, a carpenter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARULLUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere is thy leather apron and thy rule?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat dost thou with thy best apparel on?--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou, sir, what trade are you?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOBBLER  Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am  10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebut, as you would say, a cobbler. 11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARULLUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what trade art thou? Answer me directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOBBLER  A trade, sir, that I hope I may use with a safe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.  14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat trade, thou knave? Thou naughty knave, what\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  trade?  15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOBBLER  Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me.  16\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet if you be out, sir, I can mend you. 17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  fellow?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOBBLER  Why, sir, cobble you. 19\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21 awl (Punning on all.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e22 meddle with (1) have to do with (2) have sexual intercourse with\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23 withal yet. (With pun on with awl.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24 recover (1) resole (2) cure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25 proper fine, handsome.   as . . . leather (Proverbial. Neat's leather is cowhide.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31 triumph triumphal procession. (Caesar had overthrown the sons of Pompey the Great in Spain at the Battle of Munda, March 17, 45 b.c. The triumph was held that October.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e33 tributaries captives who will pay ransom (tribute)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35 senseless insensible like stone (hence, unfeeling)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37 Pompey (Caesar had overthrown the great soldier and onetime triumvir at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 b.c. Pompey fled to Egypt, where he was murdered.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e38-9  battlements . . . chimney tops (The details are appropriate to an Elizabethan cityscape.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42 great (Alludes to Pompey's epithet, Magnus, \"great.\")   pass pass through\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e45 Tiber the Tiber River\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e46 replication echo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e47 concave hollowed out, overhanging\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e49 cull pick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS  Thou art a cobbler, art thou?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOBBLER  Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl. I  21\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emeddle with no tradesman's matters nor women's  22\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ematters, but withal I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old  23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshoes. When they are in great danger, I recover them.  24\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs proper men as ever trod upon neat's leather have  25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egone upon my handiwork.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut wherefore art not in thy shop today?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy dost thou lead these men about the streets?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCOBBLER  Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einto more work. But indeed, sir, we make holiday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph. 31\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARULLUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat tributaries follow him to Rome 33\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  things! 35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft 37\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave you climbed up to walls and battlements, 38\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, 39\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour infants in your arms, and there have sat\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe livelong day, with patient expectation,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. 42\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when you saw his chariot but appear,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave you not made an universal shout,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat Tiber trembled underneath her banks 45\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo hear the replication of your sounds 46\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMade in her concave shores? 47\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd do you now put on your best attire?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd do you now cull out a holiday? 49\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd do you now strew flowers in his way\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e51 Pompey's blood (1) Pompey's offspring (2) the blood of the Pompeys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e54 intermit suspend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e55 needs must must necessarily\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e57 sort rank\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e59-60  till . . . all until even at its lowest reach the river is filled to the brim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e61 See . . . moved See how even their ignoble natures can be appealed to. (Mettle and metal are interchangeable, meaning both \"temperament\" and the natural substance. A base metal is one that is easily changed or moved, unlike gold; compare 1.2.308-10.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e64 images statues (of Caesar in royal regalia, set up by his followers)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e65 ceremonies ceremonial trappings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e67 Feast of Lupercal a feast of purification (Februa, whence February) in honor of Pan, celebrated from ancient times in Rome on February 15 of each year. (Historically, this celebration came some months after Caesar's triumph in October of 45 b.c. The celebrants, called Luperci, raced around the Palatine Hill and the Circus carrying thongs of goatskin, with which they lightly struck those who came in their way. Women so touched were supposed to be cured of barrenness; hence Caesar's wish that Antony would strike Calpurnia, 1.2.6-9.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e69 trophies spoils of war hung up as memorials of victory.   about go around the other way\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e70 vulgar commoners, plebeians\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e73 pitch highest point in flight. (A term from falconry.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e74 else otherwise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? 51\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBegone!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRun to your houses, fall upon your knees,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePray to the gods to intermit the plague 54\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat needs must light on this ingratitude. 55\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo, go, good countrymen, and for this fault\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAssemble all the poor men of your sort; 57\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDraw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto the channel, till the lowest stream 59\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo kiss the most exalted shores of all. 60\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExeunt all the commoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee whe'er their basest mettle be not moved. 61\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo you down that way towards the Capitol;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis way will I. Disrobe the images 64\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you do find them decked with ceremonies. 65\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARULLUS  May we do so?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou know it is the Feast of Lupercal. 67\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFLAVIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is no matter. Let no images\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBe hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about 69\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd drive away the vulgar from the streets; 70\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo do you too, where you perceive them thick.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese growing feathers plucked from Caesar's wing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill make him fly an ordinary pitch, 73\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho else would soar above the view of men 74\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd keep us all in servile fearfulness. Exeunt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2 Location: A public place or street, perhaps as in the previous scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e0.1  for the course i.e., stripped for the race, carrying a goatskin thong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Antonio (Here and occasionally elsewhere Shakespeare employs Italian forms of Latin proper names, perhaps for metrical reasons.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 sterile curse curse of barrenness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Set on Proceed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15 press throng\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1.2] * Enter Caesar, Antony for the course, Calpurnia, Portia, Decius, Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, Casca, a Soothsayer; after them, Marullus and Flavius; [citizens following]. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalpurnia!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecasca Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR                  Calpurnia!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCALPURNIA  Here, my lord.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStand you directly in Antonio's way 3\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen he doth run his course. Antonio!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONY  Caesar, my lord?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForget not, in your speed, Antonio,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo touch Calpurnia; for our elders say\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe barren, touched in this holy chase,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShake off their sterile curse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONY I shall remember. 9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Caesar says \"Do this,\" it is performed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet on, and leave no ceremony out. [Flourish.]  11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOOTHSAYER  Caesar!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR  Ha? Who calls?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASCA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBid every noise be still. Peace yet again!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[The music ceases.]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is it in the press that calls on me? 15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hear a tongue shriller than all the music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCry \"Caesar!\" Speak. Caesar is turned to hear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18 ides of March March 15.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e24.1  Sennet trumpet call signaling the arrival or departure of a dignitary.   Manent They remain onstage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e25 order of the course ritual and progress of the race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28 gamesome fond of sports, merry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e34 wont accustomed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35 You . . . hand You behave too stubbornly and in too unfriendly a manner. (The metaphor is from horsemanship.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e37 veiled my look i.e., been introverted, seemed less friendly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOOTHSAYER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeware the ides of March.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR What man is that? 18\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUTUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet him before me. Let me see his face.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFellow, come from the throng. [The Soothsayer comes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  forward.] Look upon Caesar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat say'st thou to me now? Speak once again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOOTHSAYER  Beware the ides of March.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCAESAR\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is a dreamer. Let us leave him. Pass. 24\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSennet. Exeunt. Manent Brutus and Cassius.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill you go see the order of the course? 25\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUTUS  Not I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS  I pray you, do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUTUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am not gamesome. I do lack some part 28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf that quick spirit that is in Antony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'll leave you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrutus, I do observe you now of late.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have not from your eyes that gentleness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd show of love as I was wont to have. 34\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou bear too stubborn and too strange a hand 35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver your friend that loves you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUTUS           Cassius,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBe not deceived. If I have veiled my look, 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e39 Merely entirely\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e40 passions of some difference conflicting emotions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e41 only proper to relating only to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42 soil blemish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e49-50  By . . . value because of which misunderstanding (my assuming you were displeased with me) I have kept to myself important thoughts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e54 just true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e58 shadow image, reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e59 best respect highest repute and station\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e62 had his eyes (1) could see things from the perspective of Caesar's critics, or (2) could see better with his own eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI turn the trouble of my countenance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMerely upon myself. Vexd I am 39\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf late with passions of some difference, 40\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConceptions only proper to myself, 41\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviors. 42\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut let not therefore my good friends be grieved--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong which number, Cassius, be you one--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor construe any further my neglect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThan that poor Brutus, with himself at war,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForgets the shows of love to other men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy means whereof this breast of mine hath buried 49\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoughts of great value, worthy cogitations. 50\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUTUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut by reflection, by some other things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS  'Tis just. 54\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it is very much lamented, Brutus,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat you have no such mirrors as will turn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour hidden worthiness into your eye,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat you might see your shadow. I have heard 58\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere many of the best respect in Rome, 59\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcept immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd groaning underneath this age's yoke,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave wished that noble Brutus had his eyes. 62\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUTUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat you would have me seek into myself\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor that which is not in me?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd since you know you cannot see yourself\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e68 glass mirror\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e69 modestly discover reveal without exaggeration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e71 jealous on suspicious of.   gentle noble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e72 laughter laughingstock, as at 4.3.114; or perhaps laugher, a shallow fellow who laughs at every jest.   did use were accustomed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e73 stale cheapen, make common.   ordinary (1) commonplace (2) customary (3) tavern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e74 protester one who protests or declares friendship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e76 after scandal afterwards slander\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e77 profess myself make declarations of friendship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e78 rout mob\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e78.1  Flourish Fanfare for a dignitary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e87 indifferently impartially\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e88 speed me make me prosper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e91 favor appearance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e95 as lief not be just as soon not exist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e96 such . . . myself i.e., a fellow mortal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo well as by reflection, I, your glass, 68\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill modestly discover to yourself 69\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat of yourself which you yet know not of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus. 71\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWere I a common laughter, or did use 72\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo stale with ordinary oaths my love 73\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo every new protester; if you know 74\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat I do fawn on men and hug them hard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd after scandal them, or if you know 76\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat I profess myself in banqueting 77\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo all the rout, then hold me dangerous. 78\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlourish, and shout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUTUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat means this shouting? I do fear the people\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChoose Caesar for their king.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS Ay, do you fear it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen must I think you would not have it so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBRUTUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would not, Cassius, yet I love him well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut wherefore do you hold me here so long?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is it that you would impart to me?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf it be aught toward the general good,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet honor in one eye and death i'th'other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I will look on both indifferently; 87\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor let the gods so speed me as I love 88\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name of honor more than I fear death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCASSIUS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs well as I do know your outward favor. 91\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, honor is the subject of my story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI cannot tell what you and other men\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThink of this life; but, for my single self,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI had as lief not be as live to be 95\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn awe of such a thing as I myself. 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e105 Accoutred fully dressed in armor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e108 lusty sinews vigorous might. (Literally, tendons.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e109 stemming making headway against.   hearts of controversy hearts fired up by rivalry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e112 Aeneas hero of Virgil's Aeneid, the legendary founder of Rome (hence our great ancestor), who bore his aged father Anchises out of burning Troy as it was falling to the Greeks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e117 bend his body bow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e122 color (1) i.e., normal healthy hue (2) military colors, flag. (The lips are personified as deserters.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e123 bend glance, gaze\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e124 his its\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e129 temper constitution\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e130 get . . . of gain ascendancy over\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e131 palm victor's prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was born free as Caesar, so were you;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe both have fed as well, and we can both\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEndure the winter's cold as well as he.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301017506021,"sku":"NP9780553212969","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553212969.jpg?v=1767730530","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/julius-caesar-isbn-9780553212969","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}