AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 1
Revise: Act 1In Act 1 Scene 1, the tribunes Flavius and Marullus confront working people who have left their trades to celebrate Caesar's triumph. Tribunes represent the common people, but these officials speak to them with contempt. The cobbler answers their questioning with jokes, including the pun on shoe soles and human souls in “a mender of bad soles”.
- Revise: The plebeians
A Roman official whose role included representing and protecting the common people.