 "Triumvirs after Caesar's death"

"Conspirators against Caesar"

"Tribunes"

"Roman Senate Senators"

"Citizens"

"Loyal to Brutus and Cassius"

"Other"
The play opens with two tribunes discovering the commoners of Rome celebrating Julius Caesar's triumphant return from defeating the sons of his military rival, Pompey.The tribunes, insulting the crowd for their change in loyalty from Pompey to Caesar, attempt to end the festivities and break up the commoners, who return the insults.During the feast of Lupercal, Caesar holds a victory parade and a soothsayer warns him to "Beware the ides of March", which he ignores.