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Antony. He, Antony and Lepidus prepare to get rid of anyone who is against them. They create a list of names and

mark the names of the people they want to kill, including relatives and friends.

Cassius and Brutus set up a camp in Sardis. Cassius shows up with his army at the campsite where Brutus

is waiting for him, but is very angry with Brutus for ignoring some letters he sent asking Brutus to release a prisoner.

Brutus has instead punished the man for accepting bribes. Cassius and Brutus argue for a while until Cassius pulls out

his sword and tells Brutus to kill him if he hates him so much. Brutus of course refuses and the two men make up.

Brutus then informs Cassius that his wife Portia is dead. She apparently swallowed hot coals after Antony

and Octavius took power. When two men enter the tent, Brutus immediately stops talking about Portia and instead only

focuses on the military matters at hand. When one of the men asks him about his wife, he said he didn t know anything

about it. Brutus convinces Cassius during the strategy meeting that it would be best for them to march to Philippi to

defeat them before they get too strong. Cassius to his plan and leaves for the night.

Brutus calls some men into his tent in case he needs to send them away as messengers that night and

makes them go to sleep. He stays up reading, but he is disturbed by the ghost of Caesar who appears. The ghost tells

Brutus that he he will be on the battlefield at Philippi. Brutus is so scared by this that he wakes up all the men in his tent

and sends them to Cassius with orders that Cassius should leave before him the next morning.

On the battlefield at Philippi, Antony and Octavius agree to their battle plans. They meet with Brutus and

Cassius, but other but are unable to accomplish anything. All four men return to their armies to get ready for war.

In the middle of the battle Brutus sees a chance to destroy Octavius’ army and rushes away to attack it. He

leaves Cassius behind who quickly starts losing to Antony. Cassius believes he is completely defeated and commits

suicide by running onto a sword held by one of his soldiers. Brutus arrives, sees his friend dead and remarks, “O

Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet”.

Brutus gets a man to to hold a sword for him. He runs onto the sword and kills himself.

Antony and Octavius arrive and see Brutus dead upon the ground. Antony says, “This was the noblest

Roman of them all”. Octavius ends the play with the lines, “So call the field to rest, and let’s away, to part the glories of

this happy day”.

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