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Question:Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.. I come to bury Caesar not to praise him, etc.
I have to recite it on Monday.. but I don't even know who I'm role-playing to be. Is it... Antony? I have no idea. Please help! :]


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I have to recite it on Monday.. but I don't even know who I'm role-playing to be. Is it... Antony? I have no idea. Please help! :]

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 interred with their bones,
So let it be with Caesar ... The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

On March 14, 44 BC, Antony was alarmed by a talk he had with a Senator named Casca, who told him the gods would make a strike against Caesar in the Roman Forum. Fearing the worst, the next day he went down to head off the dictator. The Liberatores reached Caesar first, however, and he was assassinated on March 15, 44 B.C, the date known as the Ides of March. In the turmoil that surrounded the event, Antony escaped Rome dressed as a slave, fearing that the dictator's assassination would be the start of a bloodbath among his supporters. When this did not occur, he soon returned to Rome, discussing a truce with the assassins' faction

it's antony

Brutus I think.

That's Marc Antony. Brutus says, "Romans, Countrymen and lovers!" Just for the previous poster's information.

Julius Caesar
Act III, Scene ii:

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 interred 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 answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,—
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honorable men,—
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.

For the rest of Antony's speech and other information check out the SparkNotes link below in the Source(s) textbox.