Mark Antony Speech Download?

Question

Please someone help me! I have to memorize the whole speech given by Mark Antony. It is the Friends Romans Countrymen one. I do not have limewire or anything like that and dont want it. So will some please kindly tell me where i can download it for FREE so i can put it on my ipod and listen to it???

Answer 1

You can record it yourself. That will help you memorize it.

The "Friends Romans Countrymen" speech is a great example of a good speech.
From the start the first three words fit into the rule of three a technique not fully identified for a few hundred years. This was perhaps my first experience of a the power of a good speech - the ability of a speaker to convince an audience of their point of view. I particularly love the way in which he is able to turn the word honourable around to in fact mean dishonourable. I always chuckle when I hear British Members of Parliament talking about their Honourable Friends".

Mark Antony:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interréd with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar…. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it….
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
(For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all; all honourable men)
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral….
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Answer 2

You will be able to memorize this more easily if you understand exactly what the speech is about. Go to "No Fear Shakespeare" for a simple translation of the play, side-by-side with Shakespeare's original.

I really like this site, and it has helped many of my students enjoy reading Shakespeare more when they understand what he is saying.

Here is the link to that speech:

http://nfs.sparknotes.com/juliuscaesar/page_132.html

Good luck. You'll be proud of yourself when you're done.