JULIUS CAESAR: THE FINAL ACT

Geller’s Splendiferous Sophomores

Fall 2013

Vocabulary

PLAGUE (N): CURSE, EPIDEMICCONCAVE (ADJ): CURVING INWARDCOGITATIONS (N): THOUGHTSDOUBLET (N): SNUG-FITTING MEN’S JACKET OR VEST (RENAISSANCE ERA)

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LAMENTED (V): MOURNED; EXPRESSED SORROW

PEEVISH (ADJ): IRRITABLE PORTENTOUS (ADJ): IMPORTANT;

SIGNIFICANT KNAVE (N): RASCAL; DISHONEST OR

UNSCRUPULOUS MAN COUNTENANCE (N): FACE, APPEARANCE HINDER (V): HOLD BACK, PREVENT

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DEFIANCE (N): OPEN RESISTANCE; BOLD DISOBEDIENCE

CUR (N): MONGREL DOG;MUTT

ENSIGN (N): FLAG DEMEANOR (N): BEARING;

ATTITUDE TARRY (V): LOITER,

LINGER

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VIRTUE (N): A POSITIVE QUALITY OR CHARACTERISTIC

SALUTATION (N): GREETING DISCONSOLATE (ADJ): SAD; UNABLE TO

BE COMFORTED VAUNTING (V): BOASTING MELANCHOLY (ADJ): SAD, GLOOMY,

MOROSE

WHERE WE LEFT OFF…

CASSIUS AND BRUTUS HAVE RESOLVED THEIR DIFFERENCES

THE TWO GENERALS PLAN TO MARCH TO PHILIPPI, IN SOUTHERN GREECE, TO CONTEND WITH THE ARMIES OF ANTONY AND OCTAVIUS

CAESAR’S GHOST ASSURES BRUTUS THAT HE WILL SEE HIM THERE

WHERE WE GO FROM HERE

ACT V OPENS SEVERAL WEEKS LATER, ON THE BATTLEFIELD AT PHILIPPI

ANTONY AND OCTAVIUS, WELL-RESTED AND FORTIFIED, ARE PLEASED THAT THE CONSPIRATORS HAVE DECIDED TO MEET THEM THERE

A BIT OF FRICTION IS ALREADY EVIDENT BETWEEN ANTONY AND OCTAVIUS, PERHAPS FORESHADOWING OCTAVIUS’S ULTIMATE CONQUEST

THE CONSPIRATORS MEET THEM AND EXCHANGE INSULTS

IT’S ON!

AS ONE MIGHT EXPECT, THE OUTCOME OF THE FINAL BATTLE WILL BE DETERMINED BY A SERIES OF STRATEGIC MISSTEPS, LAPSES IN JUDGMENT, AND GENERAL SHENANIGANS.

ACT V CAST

CHARACTER 3RD 6TH 7TH

OCTAVIUS CALEB CHRIS DALTON

ANTONY ANTHONY PARKER WILL

MESSENGER LANE TIM TJ

BRUTUS ANDREW ALEX RUBEN

CASSIUS CC NICK TYLER

LUCILIUS JAKE MICHAEL COLTON

MESSALA DREW BRAYDEN ANDREW

TITINIUS JESSIE JEREMIAH STUART

PINDARUS TESSA BRITTNEY P. REECE

ACT V CAST

CHARACTER 3RD 6TH 7TH

CATO* ZACH LILLY MATTHEW M.

FIRST SOLDIER WESTLEY BRITTANY C. CODY

SECOND SOLDIER

DYLAN KELSEY MCKENAH

CLITUS THOMAS MADISON ANDREA

DARDANIUS NATHAN JAKE DANIELLE

VOLUMNIUS KYLEE MATTHEW JANIEL

STRATO RHYS GREYSON KASSI

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

TRADITIONALLY, THE FINAL SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES WAS THE CHARACTER WHO WOULD INHERIT THE MOST AUTHORITY AFTER THE DEATH OF THE PLAY’S HERO.