JULIUS CAESAR SCRIPT

Play management, props and sound effects team-- aakrit, SHAURYA, vedha, ashmi, Saumya
nishtha, KRITAGYA

NARRATION- INRODUCTION OF THE PLAY

Jealousy is when you count someone's blessings instead of your own.

Julius caesar is one of the famous tragedies written by the grand english playwright, William
Shakespeare. The play takes place in Rome in 44 BC and is an exciting tale of power,
ambition, and man's greed and jealousy morphing friends's loyalty into betrayal. It gives
birth to the most iconic lines in theatre- et tu, brute? Let us take a look at the major players
of this exciting political drama.

CAST INTRODUCTION:
Julius Caesar Ayush Kitchlew He is powerful roman general, extremely
popular statesman and leader. A charismatic
orator, he is too trusting of his advisors
around him, which ultimately leads to his
downfall
Calpurnia Vansheen kaul Elegant and humble, the wife of julius caesar
who is supportive of her husband but fearful
of his death at hands of his enemies.
Marcus Brutus Supushpanand Caesar's greatest friend who joins the
ocnspiracy because of his great love for rome
and democracy
cassius hardik Inspirer and organizer of the conspiracy
Decius Brutus Co-conspirator in Caesar's assassination
Mark Antony Harshan tickoo Military general and most- trusted loyal friend
of caesar, and who defends caesar's honour as
his supporter.
First citizen Sampann jain
Second citizen, aadhar
servant
Third citizen samaira
Fourth citizen aanandika

Comments by narrrator:
Betty milder once said: the worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for
you. These words apply perfectly for our titular character, julius caesar, the lealousy of
whose friends led to his downfall. The play opens when the eponymous character, caesar
has just come back from winning a major war for their nation and returns back as a public
hero. However, during the victory parade someone warns him of great personal danger,
even death, lying ahead for him he ignores this fateful warning, his wife calpurnia tries to
warn him not to go to the senate, the next day. Listening to his wife, he decides not to go.
But some of his jealous friends, brutus, cassius and decius WANT HIM KILLED! THEY ARE
HATCHING A CONSIPRACY to assassinate him. Will he find out in time… will he fall into the
trap of destiny, or will his loyal friends like Mark Antony save him?
Let's watch to find out! Enjoy!

{Play start….}

SCENE 01: [Calpurnia dissuades CAESAR]

It is a dark, stormy night, full of thunder and lightening. Julius Caesar in his room, imagining
his grand reception tomorrow at the Senate. However, his wife Calpurnia has been having
dreams that Caesar had been wounded, and lay dying in her arms. She is scared and begs
caesar and comes to talk to caesar about it.
{thunder noises, music required}
CAESAR
Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:
Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,
'Help, ho! they murder Caesar!' Who's within?
Enter a Servant
Servant
My lord?
CAESAR
Go bid the priests do present sacrifice
And bring me their opinions of success.
Servant
I will, my lord.
Exit
Enter CALPURNIA
CALPURNIA
What mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth?
You shall not stir out of your house to-day.
CAESAR
Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me
Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see
The face of Caesar, they are vanished.
CALPURNIA
Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,
Yet now they fright me. There is one within,
Besides the things that we have heard and seen,
Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.
A lioness hath whelped in the streets;
And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead;
Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;
The noise of battle hurtled in the air,
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
O Caesar! these things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
CAESAR
 What can be avoided
Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?
Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions
Are to the world in general as to Caesar.
CALPURNIA
When beggars die, there are no comets seen;
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
CAESAR
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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.
Re-enter Servant
What say the augurers?
Servant
They would not have you to stir forth to-day.
Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,
They could not find a heart within the beast.
CAESAR
The gods do this in shame of cowardice:
Caesar should be a beast without a heart,
If he should stay at home to-day for fear.
No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well
That Caesar is more dangerous than he:
We are two lions litter'd in one day,
And I the elder and more terrible:
And Caesar shall go forth.
CALPURNIA
Alas, my lord,
Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.
Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear
That keeps you in the house, and not your own.
We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:
And he shall say you are not well to-day:
Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.
CAESAR
Mark Antony shall say I am not well,
And, for thy humour, I will stay at home.

{NARRATOR:Caesar is so moved by calpurnia's distress and entreaties, he resolved not to go.}

Enter DECIUS BRUTUS

Here's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.
DECIUS BRUTUS
Caesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:
I come to fetch you to the senate-house.
CAESAR
And you are come in very happy time,
To bear my greeting to the senators
And tell them that I will not come to-day:
Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:
I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.
CALPURNIA
Say he is sick.
CAESAR
Shall Caesar send a lie?
Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.
DECIUS BRUTUS
Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,
Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so.
CAESAR
The cause is in my will: I will not come;
That is enough to satisfy the senate.
But for your private satisfaction,
Because I love you, I will let you know:
Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:
She dreamt to-night she saw my statua,
Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,
Did run pure blood:
And thus does she on her knee
Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.

DECIUS BRUTUS
This dream is all amiss interpreted;
And know it now: the senate have concluded
To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.
If you shall send them word you will not come,
Their minds may change.
If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper
'Lo, Caesar is afraid'?
Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love
To our proceeding bids me tell you this.

CAESAR
How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!
I am ashamed I did yield to them.
Give me my robe, for I will go.

SCENE 2: CASSIUS INSTIGATES BRUTUS, ALL FRIENDS HATCH A PLOT TO KILL CAESAR
NARRATOR: brutus is burning with jealousy upon seeing the lavish public adoration heaped
upon his dear friend JULIUS.
He who is jealous is never jealous of what he sees, what is imagined is enough.

cassius inflates brutus's imaginations playing on his insecurity and jealousy. This way we see
how cassius manipulates him against caesar.

Sennet. Exeunt all except BRUTUS and CASSIUS

CASSIUS
Will you go see the order of the course?
BRUTUS
Not I.
CASSIUS
I pray you, do.
BRUTUS
I am not gamesome: I do lack some part
Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;
I'll leave you.
CASSIUS
Brutus, I do observe you now of late:
I have not from your eyes that gentleness
And show of love as I was wont to have:
BRUTUS
Cassius,
Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am
Of late with passions of some difference,
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--
Among which number, Cassius, be you one--
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,
Forgets the shows of love to other men.
CASSIUS
Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;
Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?
BRUTUS
No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,
But by reflection, by some other things.
CASSIUS
'Tis just:
And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard,
Where many of the best respect in Rome,
Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus
BRUTUS
Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?
CASSIUS
Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:
And since you know you cannot see yourself
So well as by reflection, I, your glass,
Will modestly discover to yourself
That of yourself which you yet know not of.
Flourish, and shout
BRUTUS
What means this shouting? I do fear, the people
Choose Caesar for their king.
CASSIUS
Ay, do you fear it?
Then must I think you would not have it so.
BRUTUS
I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.
CASSIUS
I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,
As well as I do know your outward favour.
Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
BRUTUS What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
CASSIUS
I am glad that my weak words
Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.

NARRATOR: THE FIRE OF JEAOLOUSY HAS BEEN LIT, AND Brutus goes deep in thought. He is desperate to take
some action against this burning feeling. Meanwhile, decius enters and Julius caesar's hatch a conspiracy at the
dead of the night!

CASSIUS
A very pleasing night to honest men.

DECIUS

Who ever knew the heavens menace so?

CASSIUS
Now could I, Decius, name to thee a man
Most like this dreadful night,
That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars
As doth the lion in the Capitol,
A man no mightier than thyself or me
In personal action, yet prodigious grown
And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.

DECIUS
'Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius?
CASSIUS
Let it be who it is:
I know where I will wear this dagger then;
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:
Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;
Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat.

SCENE 03 CONSPIRATORS STAB CAESAR PUBLICALLY IN FRONT OF THE CAPITOL.

NARRATOR: Morning arises. Caesar's friend arrive at his house to fetch him and accompany
him ot the Capitol for his highly anticipated crowning. Caesar is pleased and humbly receives
all his friends not aware of their conspiracy..

DECIUS Good morrow, Caesar.

CAESAR
Welcome, Decius.
What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?
Good morrow, Casca.

I thank you for your pains and courtesy.

Enter ANTONY
See! Antony, that revels long o' nights,
Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.
ANTONY
So to most noble Caesar.
CAESAR
Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;
And we, like friends, will straightway go together.

BRUTUS
[Aside] That every like is not the same, O Caesar,
The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!
Exeunt

BRUTUS (in a side group whispered conversation )

Where is Decius? Let him go,
And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.
METELLUS CIMBER
Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,
Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat
An humble heart,--
Kneeling
CAESAR
I must prevent thee, Cimber.
These couchings and these lowly courtesies
Might fire the blood of ordinary men,
Be not fond,
To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood
BRUTUS
I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;
Desiring thee that Decius may
Have an immediate freedom of repeal.
CAESAR
What, Brutus!
CASSIUS
Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon:
As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,
To beg enfranchisement for decius.
CAESAR
I could be well moved, if I were as you:
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
That I was constant Decius should be banish'd,
And constant do remain to keep him so.
DECIUS (kneels and wails)
O Caesar,--
CASSIUS first, then the other Conspirator(DECIUS) and BRUTUS stab CAESAR
CAESAR
Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.
Dies
CASSIUS
Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!
Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.
BRUTUS
But here comes antony.
Welcome mark antony.

ANTONY
O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,
Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.
I know not, gentlemen, 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 hour,
Fulfil your pleasure.
BRUTUS
O Antony, beg not your death of us.
Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,
yet see you but our hands
And this the bleeding business they have done:
And pity to the general wrong of Rome--
Hath done this deed on Caesar.
For your part,
To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony.
ANTONY
All I seek to
Produce his body to the market-place;
And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,
Speak in the order of his funeral.
BRUTUS
You shall, Mark Antony.

SCENE V. The Forum.

(KINDLY ADD NARRATOIN OF THE SCENE)

SCENE 5: SPEECHES OF BRUTUS AND THEN ANTONY OVER THE DEAD BODY OF
CAESAR IN THE FORUM
Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS, DECIUS and a throng of Citizens
Citizens
We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied.
BRUTUS
Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.
Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here;
And public reasons shall be rendered
Of Caesar's death.
First Citizen
I will hear Brutus speak.

Third Citizen
The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!
BRUTUS
Be patient till the last.
Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my
cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me
for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that
you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and
 awake your senses, that you may the better judge.
If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of
Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar
was no less than his. If then that friend demand
why Brutus 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 fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was
valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I
slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his
fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his
ambition. Who is here so base that would be a
bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.
Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If
any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so
vile that will not love his country? If any, speak;
for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
All
None, Brutus, none.
BRUTUS
Then none have I offended. I have done no more to
Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of
his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not
extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences
enforced, for which he suffered death.

Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR's body

Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who,
though he had no hand in his death, shall receive
the benefit of his dying, a place in the
commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this
I depart,--that, as I slew my best lover for the
good of Rome.

All
Live, Brutus! live, live!
First Citizen
Bring him with triumph home unto his house.
Second Citizen
Give him a statue with his ancestors.
Third Citizen
Let him be Caesar.
Fourth Citizen
Caesar's better parts
Shall be crown'd in Brutus.

From <https://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html>

Second Citizen
Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.
From <https://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html>

ANTONY
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 bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
First Citizen
Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.
Second Citizen
If thou consider rightly of the matter,
Caesar has had great wrong.

From <https://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html>

But yesterday the word of Caesar might

Have stood against the world; now lies he there.
And none so poor to do him reverence.
O masters, if I were disposed to stir
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,
I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,
Who, you all know, are honourable men:
 I will not do them wrong; I rather choose
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,
Than I will wrong such honourable men.

From <https://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/full.html>

Second Citizen
O noble Caesar!
Third Citizen
O woEful day!
Fourth Citizen
O traitors, villains!
ANTONY
Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up
To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:
I am no orator, as Brutus is;
But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,
That love my friend;
REENTER CASSIUS BRUTUS DECIUS TO HEAR ANTONY AND THE SPECTACLE
were I Brutus,
And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony
Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
All
We'll mutiny.
First Citizen
We'll burn the house of Brutus.
Third Citizen
Away, then! come, seek the conspirators.
ANTONY
Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.
To every Roman citizen he gives,
To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.
Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,
His private arbours and new-planted orchards,
On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,
And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,
To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
First Citizen
Never, never. Come, away, away!
We'll burn his body in the holy place,
And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.
Take up the body.
(BRUTUS AND GANG STAND ON ONE SIDE OF THE STAGE SCARED, LOOK ON
AT THE ANGRY MOB)

ANTONY:
Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,
His private arbours and new-planted orchards,
On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,
And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,
To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.
Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
First Citizen
Never, never. Come, away, away!
We'll burn his body in the holy place,
And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.
Take up the body.
(PLAY ENDS WITH A ROIT OF CITIZEN GATHERING THE CONSPIRATORS AND THEN CHASING
THEM OUT OF THE STAGE. MARK ANTONY IS LEFT WITH CAESAR'S BODY ALONEO N STAGE.
THE MOMENT STAGE IS EMPTY HE FALLS ON HIS KNEES IN ANGUISH AND CRIES: CAESAR!!)

PLAY ENDS