This short excerpt from our video -Brutus: Liberator of Rome or Traitor to Caesar is a composite of lines from players performing Shakespeare's famous play "Julius Caesar". The setting is Caesar's funeral. The conspirators have allowed Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius) to give a speech honouring his friend, so long as he doesn't incite the crowd by blaming the Senate for his murder. In one of the most famous examples of "charged rhetoric" speeches, Antony begins by justifying Brutus' earlier speech, referring to the conspirators repeatedly as "honourable men". With repetition, it becomes clear that he is being sarcastic. Picking apart Brutus' speech even further, he contrasts their accusations with Caesar's love of his people, such that the crowd is moved to mourn him, and riot against the conspirators. In the full length video we look at some of the complex issues facing the Roman republic and Caesar's dictatorship; the historical portrayal of Brutus as a "bad guy", and Shakespeare's (and other's) rehabilitation of Brutus as a tragic figure torn apart by grief and internal conflict.
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