Julius Caesar: locations

Rome

• RomeScene

  The play’s principal setting: public streets and spaces where the tribunes confront the commoners, conspirators gather, and Cinna the Poet is killed by the mob.

• Brutus’s house and orchardScene

  Brutus’s Roman residence and orchard, where he debates Caesar’s assassination, receives the conspirators, and speaks with Portia; its precise site is unknown.

• Caesar’s houseScene

  Caesar’s residence, where Calpurnia recounts her ominous dream and Decius persuades Caesar to go to the Capitol; its precise site is uncertain.

• The CapitolScene

  The conspirators assassinate Caesar here during the Senate meeting; Shakespeare calls the location the Capitol.

• Roman ForumScene

  Brutus addresses the citizens here after the assassination, followed by Antony’s transformative funeral oration over Caesar’s body.

• Antony’s houseScene

  Antony, Octavius, and Lepidus meet here to prepare proscriptions and plan the campaign against Brutus and Cassius; the exact house is unlocatable.

• Tiber RiverMentioned

  Cassius recalls challenging Caesar to swim the river and rescuing him when he weakened; the river is referenced rather than used as a scene setting.

• LupercalMentioned

  The opening celebrations involve the running of the Lupercal, a Roman festival associated with the Palatine; it is referenced, not separately staged.

• Pompey’s PorchMentioned

  Decius suggests Pompey’s porch as one possible place where Caesar may be presented with a crown; it is referenced rather than shown.