 | William Farina - 2014 - 280 pagina’s
...ineffectual public speaking as Brutus tries to reason with the mob and pledges with chilling irony: "as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have...when it shall please my country to need my death" (III.ii.44-47). This is followed by the skillful demagoguery of Antony, beginning with "Friends, Romans,... | |
 | Oliver Arnold - 2007 - 362 pagina’s
...occasion. For Brutus ends his speech by providing the people with a first-rate imitation of Caesar: "With this I depart: that as I slew my best lover...when it shall please my country to need my death" (3.2.44-47). This ritual subjection to the people's will repeats Caesar's sacrificial gesture after... | |
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Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good... 
