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Reading Caesar II

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Reading Caesar II

Setting the scene

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Grab whatever copy of Julius Caesar you happen to have handy. (The best editions are the Arden Shakespeare, like this one, as they contain historical and literary appendices.)

Read Act 1 scene 1.

  • The play opens on a street in Rome, with a couple of Tribunes, Flavius and Marullus. The institution of the Tribune was created to protect the plebeians from the patricians. The Tribunes had a veto over the laws of the Senate and they were protected so that the Senators could not accost them. In Shakespeare’s Coriolanus we see them formed.

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