Portia

Family: Romans · Role: Brutus’ wife · First appears: Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I

Life events

Portia reveals that she has inflicted a voluntary wound to prove her constancy.(Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 Rome)
- “I have made strong proof of my constancy, Giving myself a voluntary wound Here, in the thigh:”
Brutus promises to disclose the conspiracy’s secrets to Portia.(Julius Caesar · Act II, Scene I · 📍 Rome)
- With: Marcus Brutus
- “And by and by thy bosom shall partake The secrets of my heart.”
Portia dies after grief over Brutus’s absence, swallowing fire while unattended.(Julius Caesar · Act IV, Scene II)
- With: Marcus Brutus
- “Impatient of my absence, And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony Have made themselves so strong; for with her death That tidings came. With this she fell distract, And, her attendants absent, swallow’d fire.”

married with Marcus Brutus “You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.”
parent: Cato “A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife; I grant I am a woman; but withal A woman well reputed, Cato’s daughter.”

married with Marcus Brutus “O Brutus, The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise! Sure, the boy heard me. Brutus hath a suit That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint. Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;”
servant: Lucius “Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord; Say I am merry; come to me again, And bring me word what he doth say to thee.”

Extracted from the original text of Shakespeare's Roman Plays. Made with Rho MD.