Day 2.—I, iii.
Day 3.—II, III.
Interval.
Day 4.—IV, i.
Interval.
Day 5.—IV, ii, iii.
Interval.
Day 6.—V.
This compression for the purposes of dramatic unity results in action that is swift and throbbing with human and ethical interest.
3. [Place.] Up to the second scene of the fourth act Rome is the natural place of action. The second and third scenes of the fourth act are at Sardis in Asia Minor; the last act shifts to Philippi in Macedonia. The only noteworthy deviation from historical accuracy is in making the conference of the triumvirs take place at Rome and not at Bononia. See [note, p. 116]. But there is peculiar dramatic effectiveness in placing this fateful colloquy in the city that was the center of the political unrest of the time.