Note 121 — THE OTHER CHARACTERS
Reading edition
In Muretus she has no place in the action. Brutus refers to her in his soliloquy: Act II., lines 107 ff.
Brutus—
“. . . Haec parum si te movent, Tua jam, vir ut sis, te satis conjux monet, Fidem cruore quae tibi obstrinxit suam, Testata sic se avunculi prolem tui. Si ab exequendis te avocat coeptis timor, Animusque pigro torpet ignavus gelu, Ex femina perdisce, quid deceat virum.”
This is the only reference to Portia throughout the drama. Grévin makes no mention of her, while Garnier, in his “Porcie” (1568) treats of events following the death of Caesar.