30 Days of Shakespeare: Day 17 - your favourite speech

[nwhyte]

Looking back on my posts so far, I realised that of the plays I know well I have yet to post about Julius Caesar. Fortunately this question is a jolly good excuse to turn to that play: Mark Antony's funeral oration for Caesar, turning an initially unsympathetic crowd against the conspirators, is a masterpiece of oratory. Friends, Romans, countrymen

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[bohemiancoast]

Damien Lewis is spectacular here.

[angledge]

I loooove Damien Lewis & I had to memorize that very speech in high school, so that clip was pure gold to me. Thanks for posting!