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JULIUS CAESAR: ACT II, SCENE I

Rome. BRUTUS’S orchard.

Enter NARRATOR from stage rear, coming downstage center.

NARRATOR

Brutus and the other conspirators decide to kill Caesar but spare Antony. Portia begs Brutus, her husband, to explain his change in mood. Storm clouds gather.

Exit NARRATOR stage left.

STAGE LEFT CHORUS make sounds of thunder; STAGE RIGHT CHORUS make sounds of rain.

Enter BRUTUS from stage right.

BRUTUS

It must be by his death: And for my part,

I know no personal cause to spurn at him,

But for the general. He would be crown’d:

It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;

STAGE RIGHT CHORUS gesture upward; STAGE LEFT CHORUS gesture downward.

Therefore think him as a serpent’s egg

Which, hatch’d, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,