DRAMATIS PERSONÆ

JULIUS CÆSAR.
OCTAVIUS CÆSAR,

triumvirs after the death of
MARCUS ANTONIUS,
M. ÆMILIUS LEPIDUS,

Julius Cæsar.
CICERO,
PUBLIUS,

senators.
POPILIUS LENA,
MARCUS BRUTUS,
CASSIUS,
CASCA,
TREBONIUS,

conspirators against
LIGARIUS,

Julius Cæsar.
DECIUS BRUTUS,
METELLUS CIMBER,
CINNA,
FLAVIUS and MARULLUS, tribunes.
ARTEMIDORUS of Cnidos, a teacher of Rhetoric.
A Soothsayer.
Cinna, a poet. Another Poet.
LUCILIUS,
TITINIUS,
MESSALA, friends to Brutus and Cassius.
Young Cato,
VOLUMNIUS,
VARRO,
CLITUS,
CLAUDIUS,

servants to Brutus.
STRATO,
LUCIUS,
DARDANIUS,
PINDARUS, servant to Cassius.
CALPURNIA, wife to Cæsar.
PORTIA, wife to Brutus.

Senators, Citizens, Guards, Attendants, etc.
SCENE : Rome : the neighbourhood of Sardis : the neighbour

DURATION OF TIME

Dramatic Time. -Six days represented on the stage, with intervals.

Day 1. I. 1., 2. Interval.

2. I. 3.
3. II., III. Interval.
4. IV. 1. Interval.

Interval.
6. V.

5. IV. 2., 3.

Historic Time. From October 45 B.C. (Cæsar's Triumph), or February 44 B.C. (the Lupercalia) — 1. 1. synchronises the two occasions, cf. v. 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 both forms in Plutarch; it remains uncertain which he wrote. The true form (Calpurnia) is thence adopted by most modern edd.