How many scenes in each act of julius caeasar

Please see the bottom of each scene for extensive explanatory notes.

• Dramatis Personae.
• Act 1
  • Scene 1. Rome. A street.
  • Scene 2. A public place.
  • Scene 3. The same. A street.
  • Scene 1. Rome. BRUTUS's orchard.
  • Scene 2. CAESAR's house.
  • Scene 3. A street near the Capitol.
  • Scene 4. Another part of the same street, before the house of BRUTUS.
  • Scene 1. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.
  • Scene 2. The Forum.
  • Scene 3. A street.
  • Scene 1. A house in Rome.
  • Scene 2. Camp near Sardis. Before BRUTUS's tent.
  • Scene 3. Brutus's tent.
  • Scene 1. The plains of Philippi.
  • Scene 2. The same. The field of battle.
  • Scene 3. Another part of the field.
  • Scene 4. Another part of the field.
  • Scene 5. Another part of the field.

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  Hamlet and Julius Caesar

  Around 1599, Shakespeare took a sudden departure from writing comedies to focus on the darker themes of moral ambiguity and corruption, both of the state and the individual. The result was two of his finest works, Hamlet and Julius Caesar, which share many common elements. Both plays revolve around the grave ramifications of "the cease of majesty." Both Hamlet's father and Caesar return as spirits to demand revenge. Both tragic heroes, Hamlet and Brutus, are philosophical men with high moral ideals who are forced out of their element and into action, but fail to act appropriately; Hamlet due to irresolution and Brutus to self-delusion. One could find many more parallels. Interestingly, Shakespeare alludes to Julius Caesar twice in Hamlet, in 1.1:

  In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
  A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
  The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead
  Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. (113-116)

  and in 3.2, when Hamlet asks Polonius what role he played when he was in university:

  I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the
  Capitol; Brutus killed me. (105-106)

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  Did You Know? . Unlike many of Shakespeare's other plays, which were printed in quarto form during his lifetime, Julius Caesar seems to have been first published in 1623, in the First Folio edition of Shakespeare's works. More on the First Folio.