How Shakespeare presents Mark Antony, and how the character develops across the text: from Caesar's pleasure-loving friend to a masterly orator and a ruthless triumvir.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'he is given / To sports, to wildness and much company', 'Thou art the ruins of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times', 'Domestic fury and fierce civil strife', 'Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, / With Ate by his side come hot from hell', 'If you have tears, prepare to shed them now', 'I am no orator, as Brutus is; / But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man', 'Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?', 'we shall determine / How to cut off some charge in legacies', 'In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words'.
His soliloquy over Caesar's body as his true voice, and the cold politician of the scene where the triumvirs mark men for death.
Context: the historical Antony, who offered Caesar the crown at the Lupercalia and joined Octavius and Lepidus in the Second Triumvirate.
