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Historical Works of William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. Act I

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Robert Littman
Affiliation: Columbia University

Julius Caesar. Act I

Act I: Scene i

The play opens in a street in Rome. Two tribunes, Flavius and Marullus,
are dispersing the crowds that have gathered there. The tribunes have trouble
extracting an explanation from a cobbler who appears to be leading the mob,
for the cobbler gives equivocal answers to the direct questions of the
officials. He claims to be a "mender of bad soles," "a surgeon to old shoes,"
and one who lives by the "awl." Finally, he admits that the workingmen have
left ...

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