...ihm selbst erregte Empörung zu verweisen und so die eigene Redeabsicht zu verbergen (21 1-3): Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To...mutiny. They that have done this deed are honourable und schließlich, auf dem Höhepunkt seiner demagogischen Rhetorik, diese Redekunst selber biedermännisch...

...not, That made them do it. They are wise and honourable, And will no doubt with reasons answer you. 1 come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Brutus is, 215 But — as you know me well — a plain blunt man That love my friend, and that they know full...

...thoughts that he readily suggests that personal reasons must have urged the conspirators to their deed : What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That made them do it ... (in. ii. 217) Although Antony is, of course, ready to stress all that may suit his purpose, yet...

...changes in emphasis should be made as the speech progresses? They that have done this deed are honorable. What private griefs they have, alas, I know not, That...honourable, And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. 205 I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts; I am no orator, as Brutus is, But, as you know...

...is often the opposite of what is proclaimed, or said, why are the following extracts deeply ironic? I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; (119-20) ... but were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits...