FLAVIUS and MARULLUS, tribunes.

ARTEMIDORUS of Cnidos, a teacher of Rhetoric.

Senators, Citizens, Guards, Attendants, etc.

SCENE: Rome: the neighbourhood of Sardis: the neighbour

hood of Philippi.

Historic Time.-From October 45 B.C. (Cæsar's Triumph), or February 44 B.C. (the Lupercalia)-I. 1. synchronises the two occasions, cf. vv. 35 and 72-to autumn 42 B.C. (battle of Philippi).

Dramatis Persona. First given by Rowe. For Antonius, Marullus, Varro, Claudius, Ff have Antonio, Murellus, Varrus, Claudio, all clearly unauthentic. The name Calpurnia appears always as Calphurnia; Shakespeare found Plutarch; it remains uncertain which he wrote. (Calpurnia) is thence adopted by most modern edd.

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