5.1 About the scenes
| Point | Detail |
|---|---|
| setting of Scene 2 | the Forum, Rome |
| setting of Scene 3 | a street in Rome |
| time | the afternoon of the Ides of March (15 March), 44 BC |
| Brutus's speech | in prose |
| Antony's speech | in blank verse |
| Caesar's bequest to each citizen | seventy-five drachmas |
| Caesar's other bequest | his walks, private arbours and new-planted orchards on this side of the Tiber, as public parks |
| Caesar's victory recalled | over the Nervii, on a summer's evening |
| where Octavius and Lepidus wait | at Caesar's house |
5.2 Key events in order
- The citizens demand reasons; Cassius leads some away.
- Brutus's speech: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
- Antony enters with the body; Brutus offers to die by the same dagger.
- The crowd cheers: "Let him be Caesar." Brutus leaves.
- Antony's speech: "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
- The three arguments: ransoms, tears for the poor, the crown refused thrice.
- Antony pauses; the crowd begins to change.
- The will mentioned but not read; "They were traitors."
- Antony descends; the mantle; "the most unkindest cut of all".
- The body shown; "Revenge!"
- "I am no orator, as Brutus is."
- The will read: seventy-five drachmas; walks and orchards.
- The mob rushes off to burn the traitors' houses; "Mischief, thou art afoot."
- Octavius has come; Brutus and Cassius have fled.
- Scene 3: Cinna the poet is killed by the mob.
5.3 Who said it?
| Line | Speaker | To whom |
|---|---|---|
| "We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied." | Citizens | Brutus |
| "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." | Brutus | the citizens |
| "I pause for a reply." | Brutus | the citizens |
| "None, Brutus, none." | All the citizens | Brutus |
| "Let him be Caesar." | a Citizen | the crowd |
| "This Caesar was a tyrant." | a Citizen | the crowd |
| "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" | Antony | the citizens |
| "Methinks there is much reason in his sayings." | a Citizen | the crowd |
| "They were traitors: honourable men!" | a Citizen | Antony |
| "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now." | Antony | the citizens |
| "I am no orator, as Brutus is" | Antony | the citizens |
| "Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?" | Antony | the citizens |
| "Mischief, thou art afoot" | Antony | himself |
| "Fortune is merry" | Antony | Octavius's servant |
| "I am Cinna the poet" | Cinna the poet | the citizens |
| "Tear him for his bad verses" | a Citizen | the mob |