Julius Caesar
Grade Level: 6 /Literature/Adapted with Music
Presented by Debra Lindsay and Sandra Laing, Crestwood Elementary, Springfield, Virginia
Length of Unit: Teacher Discretion (as a reading--one or two class periods, as a stage drama -- several
weeks)
I.
ABSTRACT:
This is your chance to enlighten your students and engage them in one of William Shakespeare's
greatest tragedies. Julius Caesar, newly adapted and stage tested by Core Knowledge students in
Virginia, will allow you the opportunity to use this dramatic Lupercalian extravaganza in a
myriad of ways. Set in the fall of one of ancient Rome's greatest triumvirants, this print-ready
unit includes all of the specifics you will need to create your learning and dramatic environment.
Julius Caesar can be used to supplement the literature unit interactively as a classroom reading
experience. Creatively, on stage, you can lead your students in an experience they, their families
and classmates will not forget. Performed with or without music and dances, this adaptation will
delight all. What a great way in which to share with your students' parents, local government and
business leaders the value of Core Knowledge educational background!
II.
OVERVIEW:
A.
Concept Objective:
1.
The students will become familiar with a great literary work
B.
Specific Content from the Core Knowledge Sequence
1.
Julius Caesar
C.
Skill Objectives:
1.
The students will learn how Shakespeare’s drama told the story of the fall of
Rome
2.
The students will learn about the political intricacies in ancient Rome
3.
The students will become part of the drama by acting out parts
4.
The students will learn the skills needed to perform
5.
The students will extend and recount their learning by writing essays
III.
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE:
A
For Teachers:
1.
An understanding of Ancient Rome and Greece
2.
A biographical sense of William Shakespeare and his other literary works
B.
For Students:
1.
An understanding of where England, Rome and Greece are located on the
map or globe
2.
An understanding of the architecture, customs and dress during the period
3.
An understanding of the significance of Shakespeare’s writing
IV.
RESOURCES:
A.
Geography books with photos
B.
Personal or student photos or videos
C.
Professional videos on Ancient Rome
D.
Websites
V.
LESSON:
Lesson One: Preparation for Reading Julius Caesar
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A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Daily Objectives
1.
Concept Objective: The students will become familiar with a great literary work
2.
Lesson Content: Julius Caesar
3.
Skill Objective: Performance skills
Materials
1.
See appendices
Key Vocabulary
1.
Drama - a play that tells a story
2.
Tragedy - a tragic play, a play that includes misery, sorrow and (a) catastrophe(s)
involving the main characters and affecting the outcome of the drama
3.
Soothsayer - one who foresees the future, a prophet or sibyl
4.
Ides of March - meaning mid-March, in particular the 15th day of March; the
time when Julius Caesar was reported to have died
5.
Centurion - a Roman guard
6.
Lupercalia - a festival honoring Faunus, the Roman god of the woods and
Lupercal; (Faunas, part goat and part man is the Greek equivalent of Pan who
invented the pipes which we now call woodwinds)
Activities/Procedures
1.
Ask the children what they know about William Shakespeare and where he was
from and discuss
2.
Ask the students what they know about Ancient Rome and discuss
3.
Ask the students if they have ever attended a professionally performed drama and
discuss their impressions
4.
Read the drama
Assessment/Evaluation
1.
Following completion of all activities desired for this unit -- this is dependant
upon whether or not you perform the drama
2.
Appendix
VI.
CULMINATING ACTIVITY: (Dependant as explained above)
A
A reading*
B.
A performance* (See appendices)
VII.
HANDOUTS/STUDENT WORKSHEETS
Appendix A – Julius Caesar, A Musical Adaptation by Debra Lindsay
Appendix B – Julius Caesar Essay prompt
Appendix C – The Feast of Lupercalia
Appendix D – Caesar’s Lament
Appendix E - Caesar’s Entry Fanfare
VIII.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Barnett, Sylvan. The Complete Signet Classic: Shakespeare. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Inc. 1965. 0-15-512610-5
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Appendix A: Julius Caesar
-- a Musical Adaptation by Debra Lindsay
Narrator 1: Shakespeare, who was born in 1564 and died in 1616, wrote many plays about
historical events. His plays led what we now call the English Renaissance. Williams
Shakespeare was active in all parts of the English theater. He was the author, and often actor and
director. Julius Caesar is a tragedy written in 1599 and published in 1623.
This drama takes place in 44 BC after Caesar has returned to Rome after military trips to
Carthage and Corinth, and after reforming the Roman calendar, increasing the size of the Senate
and granting Roman citizenship to aliens. Gaius Cassius Longinus fears Caesar too ambitious
and convinces Caesar’s trusted friend, Marcus Junius Brutus to join the sixty conspirators among
the Roman republicans.
. . . . and now . . . . .
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SCENE 1
THE FEAST OF LUPERCALIA
(Music and dance are included at the back of this unit.)
(All non-speaker students proceed to the risers on the back of the stage and continue to play and
sway to the music. Dancers, mimes and jugglers continue until all persons are in their places.)
Narrator 2: Ancient Rome was festively celebrating the February holiday, Lupercalia, in honor of
the Roman god of fertility. Merry-makers lined the streets and awaited along the
streets of the Forum to greet Julius Caesar in his procession to the Circus
Maximus. Others decorated statues with wreaths and garlands in celebration of
Caesar’s recent triumph over Pompey in the colony of Spain and victories in
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Corinth and Carthage.
Narrator 3: But as history has shown us, leaders in ancient times were not admired by all who
lived in their domain. Many ancient Romans sided with Pompey and thought
Caesar pompous. They feared Caesar was becoming a dictator. They
feared for their freedom and rights as Roman citizens.
(Caesar, led by two centurions, Calpurnia, Marc Anthony, Octavius, Casca, Decuis, Lucius,
Portia, Cassius, Brutus and his retinue continue to cross the stage and wave broadly to Roman
fans. Brutus and Cassius freeze at stage right, talk silently to each other while Caesar,
Calpurnia and Portia continue.)
Fanfare: (Music is included at the back of this unit.)
Julia: Look! It is Caesar and Calpurnia. They have just gotten out of the sedan chair.
Livia: . . and his officer, Marc Antony and Octavius, too!
Julia: Whom is that ragged man pushing through the guards to get to Caesar? What is he doing?
Livia: Shh! Listen.
Soothsayer: Caesar, I mean no harm! Trust me, Caesar! I beg of you. “Beware the Ides of
March.” Beware! (Crowd gasps, shows astonishment and covers mouths.)
“Beware the Ides of March!” Take care, Caesar!
Caesar: “He is a soothsayer, a dreamer. Let him pass.” Fortunes such as these cannot be told!
Soothsayer: I say, Caesar. . . . “Beware the Ides of March!”
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(Soothsayer struggles with the centurions as they remove him from Caesar’s retinue.)
Julia: What does he mean, Livia? The Ides of March is but a few weeks away. Why must
Caesar “beware the Ides of March?”
Livia: Some say the soothsayer speaks the truth. Caesar’s face shows no fear. Rest assured all is
well, dear Julia.
Crowd: Hail, Caesar! Hail, Caesar! Long live Caesar!
Julia: Livia, Brutus and Cassius did not move on. Look! They are talking by the Senate doors.
They seem secretive. They look evil like they are plotting something.
(Livia and Julia freeze and the attention is focused on Brutus and Cassius.)
Brutus: (Pointing to the crowd while saying,) “What means all this shouting?” I am worried
about Caesar’s growing power. Rome is a republic. Caesar’s influence will
threaten our government and the freedom of our Roman citizens. Our Senate
makes the laws. “I do fear the people choose Caesar for the King.”
Cassius: I love Caesar well, Brutus.
Brutus: “I know you for an honorable man, Brutus. I cannot tell what you and other men think,
but for myself, I am not in awe of Caesar.” Brutus, we were born free just as
Caesar. But I will not have Caesar be a dictator. He has been too many years in
Rome. This cannot go on. Listen to them.
Crowd: (with right hands raised upon shouting) Hail, Caesar! Hail, Caesar! Long live Caesar!
Cassius: “Why, man, Caesar doth stand like a giant, and we little men walk under his huge legs.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our
stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. In the names of all the gods, upon
what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great?”
Brutus: “For the present, say no more, I beg you! Till we meet again, my noble friend, consider
this: Brutus would rather be a slave than to call himself a son of Rome and live
under a tyrant.” We shall meet later.
(Livia and Julia watch Caesar and his retinue as they pass by them. Brutus and Cassius mime a
personal conversation.)
(Again, Caesar, led by two centurions, and his retinue cross the stage and wave broadly to
Roman fans.)
Fanfare: (Music is included at the back of this unit.)
Caesar: (With concern to Calpurnia as they are facing stage front and waving to the Roman
fans) “Yond Cassius has a mean and hungry look Cassius thinks too much: such
men are dangerous.” (Caesar and his retinue continue to wave both to the
audience and the crowd behind them.)
Cassius: Why all this shouting and applause, Casca?
Casca: “Marc Antony had offered a crown to Caesar three times, and each time Caesar had
refused it.” It caused the people to shout their approval for his show of
humility. I know he wanted the crown but he needed to save face.
Narrator 4: Brutus and Cassius sensed that Casca also distrusted Caesar and his growing
influence and decided that Casca would be a valuable ally.
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Narrator 5: In the days that followed, Cassius secretly plotted with several other senators who
were willing to take measures to put an end to Caesar’s growing power.
Narrator 4: Cassius had the support of Casca, Decius and Metellus Cimber but, for the
assassination plan to be successful, they desperately needed Caesar’s trusted and
honorable friend’s Brutus’s support. They made arrangements to meet him in his
bath the following day. They knew their task would not be easy since Brutus was
loyal to Caesar.
Narrator 5: The soothsayer’s prediction alarmed the Roman people. They put an eerie spin on
everyday occurrences. They imagined fire lighting the skies and lions walking the
streets. They even imagined the owl hooting at midday to be prophetic and an
indicator of impending doom.
Crowd/Townspeople: (Music is included at the back of this unit.)
(Brutus joins Cassius and Casca and a group of three others as they talk and motion silently at
stage left.)
Narrator 4: Hearing a rumor that the Senate was going to crown Caesar king, Brutus agreed to
join the conspirators by plotting and helping in Caesar’s assassination.
(Conspirators and narrators leave the stage.)
SCENE 2
BRUTUS’S AND PORTIA’S HOME
(Brutus is seated on a couch reading a scroll. Portia enters carrying fresh fruit in a bowl and
hands it to a servant who places it on a table and leaves.)
Portia: “Brutus, yester night at supper you suddenly rose and walked about musing and sighing.
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And when I asked you what matter was, you stared upon me with ungentle looks.”
(Portia kneels in front of Brutus and grasps his hands.) “Dear, my lord, tell me
the cause of your grief.” What is wrong? Are you working too hard? Is it matters
of the Senate? Is it our brother-in-law, Cassius?
Brutus: You read too much in my actions, Portia. “I am not well in health, and that is all.”
Portia: I think there is more, my dear Brutus. You seem very distracted. You and Cassius have
been so secretive lately. “You have some sickness within you mind. I beg you, by
all your vows of love, that you unfold to me why you are so worried.”
Brutus: You are the one who worries too much! (Brutus helps Portia into a standing position
and embraces her.) “Kneel not, gentle Portia. Wait a while . . . and by and by, thy
bosom shall know the secrets of my heart.”
Portia: But Brutus . . .
(Brutus lightly covers Portia’s mouth with his hand.)
Brutus: Shh! Your worry is upsetting me. Let us talk no further of your fantasy.
SCENE 3
CALPURNIA’S NIGHTMARE
Calpurnia: (Rolling and screaming in her bed.) No. . . . No. . Stop! . . . .Help! Help!
Caesar: (gently shaking Calpurnia from her restless sleep.) What is it, Calpurnia? Why are you
screaming? Wake up! It is just a nightmare! Wake up! Wake up!
Calpurnia: It was terrible! An awful dream! “Help, ho! They murder Caesar!” I dreamed you
were being stabbed and blood spurted forward like flooding rivers. You
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were unaware. They came from behind!
Caesar: Who came from behind?
Calpurnia: I could not see their faces. They despised you and your power. “I never believed in
omens.” This cannot be . . . but what could this dream mean? (Calpurnia,
hugging herself in fear, begins to pace across the room.) “Alas, my lord,
(stopping and grabbing Caesar’s shoulders) do not go forth today!” I beg of you.
Do not go out of our house!
Caesar: (Rising and facing front)
“Cowards die many times before their death;
The valiant never taste of death but one.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear,
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.”
Calpurnia: (Weeping) Say it is I that keeps you home, dear Caesar. Say you are ill. You can,
“Call it my fear that keeps you in the house and not your own.” Please, I beg of
you, as the soothsayer said, Beware the Ides of March. It is the fifteenth day of
March. “Let me, prevail in this.”
Caesar: I cannot stay at home. All Rome will think me a coward!
Calpurnia: (On bended knee) Please, Caesar!
Caesar: (Waits for a few seconds after looking into Calpurnia’s eyes) “For you, I will stay at
home.”
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(Caesar helps Calpurnia return to her bed and covers her.)
Caesar: Do not worry, I will be here. Rest now. The night grows light.
SCENE 4
THE FINAL WALK TO POMPEY’S THEATER
Narrator 6: A short time later when Calpurnia was still asleep several of Caesar’s conspirators
went to Caesar’s home to accompany him on his walk to the senate meetings at
Pompey’s Theater.
Lucius: Oh, come on, Caesar. Are you going to let Calpurnia and a decrepit old soothsayer scare
you into staying home? You are the mighty Caesar, ruler of the modern world!
No harm dares come your way!
Decius: “Caesar, the Senate plans to offer you a crown and they will mock you for staying home
because of your wife’s bad dreams.”
Caesar: Perhaps you are right. Let us go together. It is a pleasant day for a walk on the way to
Pompey’s Theater. The daffodils and tulips are beginning to bud. The air is crisp.
I can smell spring in the air. All is well in Rome.
Narrator 7: As Caesar, his centurions and the senators walked, they again came upon the decrepit
soothsayer.
Caesar: You see, my friend, “The Ides of March are come.” I am well.
Soothsayer: “Ay, Caesar, but not yet gone.”
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Decius: (Saying on the sly to Lucius) Foolish man! Get him away! (The centurions push him
to the ground and thrust a sword in his face.)
Centurion 1: Be gone, old man! Make haste and trouble Caesar no more!
(Soothsayer limps off stage right. The conspirators, centurions and Caesar leave stage left. At
stage right, several senators sit in a semi-circle and talk among themselves. Cassius, Brutus,
Casca, Decius and Lucius then enter with Caesar.)
Narrator 7: The Senators stood when at last Caesar took his seat. Immediately
Metellus Cimber knelt before him waiting to plead his case for his brother.
Mettellus Cimber: (Runs to Caesar and begs on one knee) Caesar, they have banished my
brother
Publius Cimber. Please, he must be allowed to return to Rome.
Cassius: (Rises) Caesar, I beg of you. Brutus, your trusted friend, and I support the request of
Mettelus Cimber to return to Rome. His banishment need not go on.
Caesar: (Rising, as if angered.) All of you know “I am as constant as the Northern Star. I was
constant Cimber should be banished, and constant do remain to keep him so.”
Senators: (Loud chattering can be heard as the senators grumble with each other and shake their
heads.)
Senator 1: Caesar, please hear our pleas . . . . . . We . . .
Caesar: (Standing and interrupting their protests) Do not speak to me regarding Mettellus
Cimber again!
Narrator 7: As Caesar prepares to sit Casca, Cassius and Brutus rush behind him with daggers.
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Casca: Rome can take no more! (Raising his dagger high in the air) “Speak, hands, for me!”
This I do for the future of Rome! (Stabs Caesar five times)
(Cassius and Brutus stab Caesar four times in the back.)
Caesar: (Looks back and sadly recognizes Brutus and grasps on to his chair) “Et tu, Brute?
Even you?” You were my most trusted friend. . . . . If you hate me as much as
this, . . . . “Then fall, Caesar.”
(Caesar falls at stage front, centered horizontally between stage left and stage right. All
Senators flee.)
Caesar Minor (Music is included at the back of this unit.)
(While Caesar Minor is playing, two centurions unfold a black sheet and -- and raise it into the
air like a parachute -- let the shroud cover Caesar’s dead body. From a basket they throw flower
petals onto the shroud and return to their places at stage left and stage right with arms akimbo.)
Narrator 8: The Ides of March had come. Rome was in an uproar with the news of Caesar’s
death. Statues were covered in black. Order needed to be restored among the
restless Romans.
Narrator 9:. Brutus’s eyes met Marc Antony’s. Brutus could tell that he understood the turmoil
of Rome and its citizens. Brutus knew Marc Anthony’s support was crucial but he
also feared his political authority.
Marc Antony: I will promise not to oppose the new government but you must let me speak at
Caesar’s funeral.
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Brutus: (Hesitantly) You may speak -- but I must speak first. I must tell the citizens why this
act had to happen. They must understand it was for the good of Rome.
SCENE 5
JULIUS CAESAR’S FUNERAL
(Calpurnia and Portia -- with black head drapes, Marc Anthony, Octavius, Casca, Decuis,
Lucius, Cassius and Brutus enter together for the funeral ceremony. The crowd remains at the
rear of the stage.)
Narrator 8: Marc Antony, however, planned to avenge Caesar’s murder. As Marc Antony and
Brutus had planned, Brutus took the podia first to speak.
Brutus: (With large hand gestures) “Romans, countrymen, and lovers!
Hear me for my cause, and believe me for mine honor.
If then that friend demand why I rose against Caesar,
This is my answer:
Not that I loved Caesar less,
But that I loved Rome more.
Had you rather Caesar were living,
And die all slaves,
Than that Caesar were dead,
To live all free men?
As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;
As he was valiant, I honor him;
But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Who here is so vile that will not love his country?
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If any, speak; for him have I offended.”
Crowd: (crowd shaking their heads, and speaking among themselves -- others shouting)
“None, Brutus, none.”
(Marc Anthony enters and Brutus acknowledges him.)
Brutus: And now Marc Antony will offer Julius Caesar’s eulogy.
Marc Anthony: “Friends, Romans, countrymen,
Lend me your ears:
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their heir bones,
So let it be with Caesar.
(Anthony pauses to signify his grief.)
Caesar was my friend, faithful and just to me:
(said strongly with conviction) But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
(said again with more conviction) But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown.
Which he did thrice refuse:
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Was this ambition?
(said strongly with conviction) But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.”
(Anthony unexpectedly stands near Caesar’s head. Brutus and Cassius look fearfully at each
other -- not knowing Antony’s plan to show the body.)
Marc Antony: Here, look my friends! (Anthony pulls the black sheet back from Caesar’s’s head
and torso.)
Crowd: (Covering of mouths, hiding of faces, individual sighs and loud moans during Anthony’s
showing of Caesar’s body.)
Marc Antony: Caesar would want it so. Gaze at his wounds! Count the number of times he
was stabbed by those he thought were his friends and comrades of Rome! Look!
Is this how one treats a friend?
(The retinue step up to look at the body, gasp and weep.)
Marc Antony: Here is Cassius’s cut. And here . . . is Casca’s. And here is Brutus’s. It is the
unkindest cut of all . . . the stabbing by a trusted friend!
(Antony pauses here to allow the family and crowd to react.)
Narrator 10: The crowd began to weep sorrowfully. Some talked openly of burning the houses
of
the assasinators and killing their families. Rage and intense sorrow could be read
on Rome’s faces.
Marc Antony: Hear ye, hear ye all good and faithful Roman Citizens! Your beloved Caesar has
provided for you even in death. . . . . (Anthony unrolls and reads from a scroll.)
Upon my death I call for every Roman citizen to be given 75 drachmas. They shall
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have this in remembrance of me. . . . . (Puts down scroll.) I ask you again. Who is
ambitious?
Crowd: Most noble, Caesar, we shall revenge your death. Hail Caesar! (The scene fades as the
crowd leaves while mumbling revenging Caesar’s death.)
SCENE 6
SEVERAL MONTHS LATER
Narrator 11: Time did not heal Rome’s wounds. War had broken out in Philippi and unrest was
still evident in everyday life.
(Julia and Livia eat grapes while chatting at stage front.)
Livia: Have you heard, Julia? Brutus had taken to seeing the ghost of Caesar.
Julia: What do you mean?
Livia: Word has it that on the eve of the battle of Philippi, Brutus was awakened in the middle
of the night by Caesar’s ghost.
Julia: (Grabs and covers her mouth) That cannot be.
Livia: Caesar’s ghost told him he would see him in battle the next day. Brutus was so frightened
he had all the servants scurrying around like uncaged mice! Brutus was screaming
and acting crazy!
Julia: Do not scare me, Livia.
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Livia: No. . . it’s true. My cousin told me. She swears on her life. She was in the hallway
folding
togas when Brutus ran screaming to Portia.
Julia: Portia was so hysterical and ashamed she took her life. The next day both Cassius and
Brutus died in Philippi. But they did not die in battle.
Livia; I do not understand. What happened?
Julia: Brutus planned that he and Cassius would face Marc Antony and Octavius at Philippi.
Brutus’s and Cassius’s troops were massacred. They threw themselves on
swords.
Livia: Why did they do that, Livia?
Julia: It was the only noble deed left for them. Many men died. They could not return to
Rome in shame. They lost everything they had strived for.
Livia: They paid a high price for what they did. We live in such troubled times, Julia.
Julia: Yes, I know. These are the times which try mens’ souls.
(Julia and Livia, looking at each other, sit on the floor for a few seconds in silence.)
Narrator 1: The End
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their
Curtain Call
1. Crowd bows
2. Narrators bow
3. Soothsayer bows
4. Metellus Cimber, Lucius, Octavius, Casca, Decius and centurions bow
5. Portia and Calpurnia bow
6. Livia and Julia bow
7. Marc Antony bows
8. Cassius bows
9. Brutus bows
10. Caesar bows
Characters:
Narrator 1
Narrator 2
Narrator 3
Narrator 4
Narrator 5
Narrator 6 {actors who help us understand the action)
Narrator 7
Narrator 8
Narrator 9
Narrator 10
Narrator 11
Julia - a Roman citizen*
Livia - a Roman citizen*
Brutus’s and Portia’s Servant -- non-speaking part
Soothsayer - one who is believed to tell the future (always limps and is crouched over, wears a
black hooded robe)
Julius Caesar
Calpurnia -- Caesar’s wife
Cassius -- Senator
Brutus -- Senator and trusted friend of Caesar
Casca -- Senator
Portia -- wife of Brutus
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Decius -- Senator*
Lucius -- Senator*
Mettelus Cimber -- Senator
Marc Antony -- Roman General, (after Caesar’s death, succeeds as one of the Roman triumvirs)
Centurions -- Guard
Crowd -- Class members, jugglers, mimers and dancers
Scarf Jugglers -- (a number of scarfs are easier to juggle, different colored scarves add
dimension)
Mimes -- Those who stand as statues and perform other tricks
Dancers/Townspeople
*(not in Shakespeare’s play, used here to help tell the story in a dramatic way)
Lupercalia Procession
Step 1 -- touch right foot to the side
Step 2 -- step right foot slightly across left foot
Step 3 - touch left foot to the side
Step 4 -- step left foot slightly across right foot
Your non-speaking students (the crowd) will be entering the stage this way. One step for each
beat.
Group 1
Continue these steps until all persons are on the stage.
Group 2 (these steps are exactly the opposite of the Group 1)
Step 1 -- touch left foot to the side
Step 2 -- step left foot slightly across right foot
Step 3 -- touch right foot to the side
Step 4 -- step right foot slightly across left foot
Continue these steps until all persons are on the stage.
You may wish to consider having two lines entering, one to each side of the stage. One student
from Group 2 would be behind a student from Group 1 (lined up as 1, 2, 1, 2, etc.). This would
give the effect of every other student touching a foot to the opposite side and giving an elegant,
choreographed look. Have all the dancers continue until all the dancers/townspeople are on
stage.
You also might consider having each student carrying a wreath with two hand and at chest level.
(This dance will be taught at the Nashville Convention.)
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Props
Large columns
Black sheet for shroud
Wicker Basket and Flower Petals (can be cut from construction paper)
Risers for Crowd -- (optional, based on how many students you want to be on stage at any given
time. This is a good way to feature your non-speaking students. You may wish to have them play
the Lupercalian melody, Caesar Minor and the Fanfare on a soprano recorder or other
instrument keyed in C.)
Costumes
Togas*
Centurion Costumes*
Ivy/Laurel head garlands
* (Techniques for making this/these will be shared at the Nashville Convention.)
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Appendix B
Name ___________________________
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Julius Caesar
-an essay
Now that you have become familiar with tragedy Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, write
everything you have learned. You may include short phrases if you desire to explain a particular
part of the drama.
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Name ___________________________
Date ____/____/_____
Class _________________
Julius Caesar
- a Critic’s View
You have watched a very popular drama. Pretend you are writing a review for a newspaper.
Write your impressions and tell why you believe these to be true. What was done well? What
could have been done better? How did the drama progress? What struck you as being the best
part of the play?
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Appendix C
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Appendix D
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Appendix E
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