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MARC ANTONY
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Shakespeares Background

• Born on April 26, 1564
• Married Anne Hathaway
• 3 children Hamnet, Susana, and Judith
• Hamnet died 1596
• 1603 acting company changed name to The
• Kings Men
• 1613 Globe burned down, Shakespeare
• moved to Stratford
• Plays officially published in 1623

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Shakespeares Plays

• Influenced first by a festival in Kenilworth he
  attended
• with his father
• 1592, considered very talented writer in London
• After 20 years, he had written 37 plays
• Plays based on history or already written fiction
• 1604-1607 wrote 3 tragedies Othello, MacBeth,
  King Lear
• Globe opened and first play was Julius Caesar
• Because of the lack off added prop details,
  Shakespeare
• focused on language

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Antonys Relationship with Caesar

• That I did love thee, Caesar ,O, tis true!
• He was my friend, faithful and just to me but
  Brutus
• says he was ambitious, and Brutus is an
  honorable man
• When Caesar says Do this, it is performed
• Yet I fear himfor in the ingrafted love he
  bears Caesar
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  -Cassius

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Antonys Role

• Marc Antony was not part of the conspirator's,
  but was thought of as a limb of Caesar
• The posture of your blows are yet unknown
• For he is given to sports, to wilderness, and
• much company
  -Brutus

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ACT I

• Antony offers the crown to Caesar
• Caesar refuses in plot to make people beg him to
  take the crown

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ACT I

• Antony is dressed for the course
• Dressed in goatskin loincloths
• Sacrificed goats and dogs
• Smeared with sacrificial blood
• Ran through city carrying a februa
• A strike assured the women fertility

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ACT II

• Antony is a loyal friend to Caesar
• Fine soldier capable of attacking against
  conspiracy.
• Cassius wants to kill Antony
• Let Antony and Caesar fall together

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ACT II

• Brutus objects because
• For Antony is but a limb of Caesar.
• Our course will seem too bloody

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ACT III

• March 15th
• Antony is lead away by Trebonius
• Conspirators stab and kill Caesar

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ACT III

• Antony requests to bury Caesar
• Wants to speak at Caesars funeral

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ACT III

• Brutus fulfilled Antonys request
• Brutus had 3 conditions
• Antony must speak well of Caesar
• No mention of the conspirators names
• Speaking with the conspirators permission

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ACT III
Although it is not the technical climax,
Antonys speech is considered the turning
point in the play
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ACT III

• 3 major points in Antonys speech
• Caesar brought money home to Rome
• Caesar wept over the poor
• Caesar thrice refused the kingly crown

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ACT III

• Antonys tactics of inciting the crowd
• The reading of Caesars will
• Mantle toga
• Stab wounds

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ACT IV

• 2nd Triumvirate
• Marc Antony
• Octavius
• Lepidus

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ACT IV

• Antonys views on Lepidus
• Hes a slight unmeritable man
• Compares him to an ass or a horse
• Barren spirited fellow

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ACT IV

• Brutus wants to march to Phillipi
• If Antonys army marches to Sardis,
• they will gain men
• Cassius wants to stay at Sardis
• so their troops will be rested

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ACT V

• The posture of your blows are yet unknown But
  for your words, they rob the Hybla bees. And
  leave them honeyless.(5,1, 34)
• This tongue had not offended so today if Cassius
  might have ruled. (5, 1, 46)

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ACT V

• Cassius views on the 2nd Triumvirate
• Lepidus - a Masker
• Antony- a Reveler
• Octavius - a School boy

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• and Brutus is an honorable man, so are they
  all, all honorable men
• It is wrong to encourage mutiny

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Antony mentions that the conspirators are
honorable 7 times while he talks to the crowd
Repetition
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For Antony is but
a limb of Caesar.
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Quiz
Questions
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Quiz Question 1

• Marc Antony is described by Cassius in Act V as
  a
• A. Masker
• B. Reveler
• C. School Boy

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Quiz Question 2

• What is the difference in Brutus
• and Antonys funeral speeches?

Antonys was in blank verse, while Brutus was in
prose
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Quiz Question 3

• True or False Shakespeare retired in London,
• and worked at the Globe until he died.

False
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