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	<TITLE>The Tragedy of Julius Caesar</TITLE>
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	<PERSONAE>
		<TITLE>Dramatis Personae</TITLE>
		<PERSONA>JULIUS CAESAR</PERSONA>
		<PGROUP>
			<PERSONA>OCTAVIUS CAESAR</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>MARCUS ANTONIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>M. AEMILIUS LEPIDUS</PERSONA>
			<GRPDESCR>triumvirs after death of Julius Caesar.</GRPDESCR>
		</PGROUP>
		<PGROUP>
			<PERSONA>CICERO</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>PUBLIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>POPILIUS LENA</PERSONA>
			<GRPDESCR>senators.</GRPDESCR>
		</PGROUP>
		<PGROUP>
			<PERSONA>MARCUS BRUTUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>CASSIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>CASCA</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>TREBONIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>LIGARIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>DECIUS BRUTUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>METELLUS CIMBER</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>CINNA</PERSONA>
			<GRPDESCR>conspirators against Julius Caesar.</GRPDESCR>
		</PGROUP>
		<PGROUP>
			<PERSONA>FLAVIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>MARULLUS</PERSONA>
			<GRPDESCR>tribunes.</GRPDESCR>
		</PGROUP>
		<PERSONA>ARTEMIDORUS Of Cnidos, a teacher of rhetoric. </PERSONA>
		<PERSONA>A Soothsayer</PERSONA>
		<PERSONA>CINNA, a poet. </PERSONA>
		<PERSONA>Another Poet</PERSONA>
		<PGROUP>
			<PERSONA>LUCILIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>TITINIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>MESSALA</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>Young CATO</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>VOLUMNIUS</PERSONA>
			<GRPDESCR>friends to Brutus and Cassius.</GRPDESCR>
		</PGROUP>
		<PGROUP>
			<PERSONA>VARRO</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>CLITUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>CLAUDIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>STRATO</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>LUCIUS</PERSONA>
			<PERSONA>DARDANIUS</PERSONA>
			<GRPDESCR>servants to Brutus.</GRPDESCR>
		</PGROUP>
		<PERSONA>PINDARUS, servant to Cassius.</PERSONA>
		<PERSONA>CALPURNIA, wife to Caesar.</PERSONA>
		<PERSONA>PORTIA, wife to Brutus.</PERSONA>
		<PERSONA>Senators, Citizens, Guards, Attendants, &amp;c.</PERSONA>
	</PERSONAE>
	<SCNDESCR>SCENE Rome: the neighbourhood of Sardis: the neighbourhood of Philippi.</SCNDESCR>
	<PLAYSUBT>JULIUS CAESAR</PLAYSUBT>
	<ACT>
		<TITLE>ACT I</TITLE>
		<SCENE>
			<TITLE>SCENE I. Rome. A street.</TITLE>
			<STAGEDIR>Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners</STAGEDIR>
			<SPEECH>
				<SPEAKER>FLAVIUS</SPEAKER>
				<LINE>Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:</LINE>
				<LINE>Is this a holiday? what! know you not,</LINE>
				<LINE>Being mechanical, you ought not walk</LINE>
				<LINE>Upon a labouring day without the sign</LINE>
				<LINE>Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?</LINE>
			</SPEECH>
			<SPEECH>
				<SPEAKER>First Commoner</SPEAKER>
				<LINE>Why, sir, a carpenter.</LINE>
			</SPEECH>
			<SPEECH>
				<SPEAKER>MARULLUS</SPEAKER>
				<LINE>Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?</LINE>
				<LINE>What dost thou with thy best apparel on?</LINE>
				<LINE>You, sir, what trade are you?</LINE>
			</SPEECH>
			<SPEECH>
				<SPEAKER>MARULLUS</SPEAKER>
				<LINE>But what trade art thou? answer me directly.</LINE>
			</SPEECH>
			<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
		</SCENE>
	</ACT>
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