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Julius Caesar v Play of Play Julius Ceasar friend assassination Marcus Brutus revenge Marcus

Julius Caesar v Play of Play Julius Ceasar friend assassination Marcus Brutus revenge Marcus Antonius conspirators • Cassius • Casca • Trebonius • Ligarius • Decius Brutus • Metellus Cimber 09 -06 -12 friend M. Aemilius Lepidus The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Marcus Brutus • 4 perspectives upon the situation ü A private

Julius Caesar v Marcus Brutus • 4 perspectives upon the situation ü A private individual ü A husband ü Co-leader of the conspiracy ü An admired associate 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v A private individual P. 153 Bru. What, Lucius, ho! I cannot,

Julius Caesar v A private individual P. 153 Bru. What, Lucius, ho! I cannot, by the progress of the stars, Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say! ---- Caesar has not been guilty of abusing his position 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character Might become soliloquy Bru. It must be by his death and for my part, (10) I know no personal cause to spurn at him But for the general. He would be crown’d: How that might change his nature, there’s the question ------And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg Which, hatch’d, would, as his kind. Grow mischievous, And kill him in the shell.

Julius Caesar v Calling to Lucius soliloquy indicate the set of scene night Outdoor---garden

Julius Caesar v Calling to Lucius soliloquy indicate the set of scene night Outdoor---garden State of his mind Walking for a long time Mental unrest 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Soliloquy---dramatic language • Soliloquy accompanied By audience’s imaginative • Audience participate

Julius Caesar v Soliloquy---dramatic language • Soliloquy accompanied By audience’s imaginative • Audience participate in the process of thinking ü his experience ü the content of his speeches ü his difficulty in determining what constitutes right action Convince the audience of his humanity transfer assassination just and right cause Marcus Brutus ---a complex creation 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v A husband---familial role p. 156 Sharp contrast between his current behavior

Julius Caesar v A husband---familial role p. 156 Sharp contrast between his current behavior and customary manner Portia: Y’have ungently, Brutus, stole from my bed; and yesternight at supper You suddenly arose, and walk’d about, Musing, and sighing, with your arms across; And when I ask’d you what the matter was, You star’d upon me with ungentle looks. I urg’d you further; -----Disturbing effect from ---the contemplation of assassination Gave sign for me to leave you. 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Relationship with his wife • Used be a close one &

Julius Caesar v Relationship with his wife • Used be a close one & strong bond Effects on private life • Now unnatural & unusual Portia is not a handmaid to her husband but a woman with strong and noble mind, and the devotion of such a woman to Brutus enlists the sympathies of the audience on his behalf. 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v An admired associate & Co-leader of the conspiracy --- Public role

Julius Caesar v An admired associate & Co-leader of the conspiracy --- Public role Bru. Would you were not sick! Cai. I am not sick if Brutus have in hand Any exploit worthy the name of honour. Bru. Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. Cai. By all the gods that Romans bow before, I here discard my sickness. Soul of Rome! Brave son, deriv’d from honourable loins! ------To do I know not what; but it sufficeth That Brutus leads me on. 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character p. 157

Julius Caesar dialogue with Ligarius demonstrate Brutus’ capacity of inspire devotion √ × Charismatic

Julius Caesar dialogue with Ligarius demonstrate Brutus’ capacity of inspire devotion √ × Charismatic aspect of his personality 09 -06 -12 His gentleness The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Brutus and the audience • Audience are allowed an insight into

Julius Caesar v Brutus and the audience • Audience are allowed an insight into both the way Brutus’s mind works and the inner uncertainty underlying Brutus’s public confidence, while the audience are conscious of such limitations of which Brutus himself is unaware. 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar Antony: (to the dead man) O mighty Caesar! Does thou lie so

Julius Caesar Antony: (to the dead man) O mighty Caesar! Does thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well. I know not, gentlement, what you intend, Who else must be let blood, who else is rank: If I myself, there is no hour so fit As Caesar’s death’s hour; nor no instrument Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich With the most noble blood of all this world 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Antony’s respond: 1. attitude of the spectator towards Caesar tyrant—a man

Julius Caesar v Antony’s respond: 1. attitude of the spectator towards Caesar tyrant—a man of unparalleled nobility 2. sympathies of the spectators murderers --- the dead man Caesar his grieving friend Antony 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar Let each man render me his bloody hand. First, Marcus Brutus, will

Julius Caesar Let each man render me his bloody hand. First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; Next , Caius Cassius, do I take your hand; Now, Decius Brutus, yours; now yours, Metellus Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours; Though last, nit least in love, yours, good Trebonius. Gentlemen all- alas, what shall I say? …… Sign’d in thy spoil, and crimson’d in thy lethe (3, 1, 184 -206) 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Antony: 3, 1 admired Caesar passionately , grief at the assassination

Julius Caesar v Antony: 3, 1 admired Caesar passionately , grief at the assassination modify the spectator 3, 2 a manipulator—rouse the mob against the conspirators 4, 1 a ruthless pragmatist, locked in a struggle for political power. 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v His contemptuous attitude towards his fellow triumvir The readiness to condemn

Julius Caesar v His contemptuous attitude towards his fellow triumvir The readiness to condemn his own nephew to death alienate the audience from him The diatancing of Antony from the audience in the course of 4, 1 prepares the way for the play’s most remarkable shift of focus Antony---Cassius 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Cassius: Up to this point most arid , most calculating of

Julius Caesar v Cassius: Up to this point most arid , most calculating of the conspirator much more complex 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Quarrel Cassius’ apparent refusal to send Brutus money to maintain his

Julius Caesar v Quarrel Cassius’ apparent refusal to send Brutus money to maintain his army overturn the spectator’s assumption about the characters of the two men. Cassius---more circumspect of the joint leader 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs (4. 2. 37

Julius Caesar v Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs (4. 2. 37 -38) selling ‘office for gold’ and ‘gold to pay legions’ contemptuous tone in which Brutus speak alignment audience with Cassius 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Cas. I denied you not. Bru. You did Cas. I didn’t.

Julius Caesar v Cas. I denied you not. Bru. You did Cas. I didn’t. He was but a fool. That brought my answer back, Brutus …… …… when thou didst hate him worst , thou lov’dst him better than ever lov’dst Cassius. (4. 3. 82 -106 P 163) 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v Up to this point Cassius appears to be using Brutus in

Julius Caesar v Up to this point Cassius appears to be using Brutus in order to lend probity to the assassination. Emerges as the victim of Brutus’ personal magnetism Cassius not the calculating master of political events 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character

Julius Caesar v The shift focus of that Shakespear engineers from scene to scene

Julius Caesar v The shift focus of that Shakespear engineers from scene to scene in this play is productive of a highly rewarding theatrical experience. Conspirators and avengers alike are complex human beings whose actions are shaoed by a varuety of pressure, rather than by consistent impulses to wards good or evil. 09 -06 -12 The Treatment of Character