Julius Caesar: the final act

1. Julius Caesar: the final act Geller’s Splendiferous Sophomores Fall 2013

2. Vocabulary PLAGUE (N): CURSE, EPIDEMIC CONCAVE (ADJ): CURVING INWARD COGITATIONS (N): THOUGHTS DOUBLET (N): SNUG-FITTING MEN’S JACKET OR VEST (RENAISSANCE ERA)

3. MORE VOCABULARY • 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

4. EVEN MORE VOCABULARY • DEFIANCE (N): OPEN RESISTANCE; BOLD DISOBEDIENCE • CUR (N): MONGREL DOG; MUTT • ENSIGN (N): FLAG • DEMEANOR (N): BEARING; ATTITUDE • TARRY (V): LOITER, LINGER

5. STILL MORE VOCABULARY • 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. ACT V CAST

10. ACT V CAST

11. 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.