How Shakespeare presents The plebeians, and how the character develops across the text: the fickle Roman crowd, swayed from Pompey to Caesar, from Brutus to Antony, and into mob violence.
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: 'a mender of bad soles', 'Knew you not Pompey?', 'the rabblement hooted and clapped their chapped hands', 'Let him be Caesar', 'Caesar's better parts / Shall be crown'd in Brutus', 'Methinks there is much reason in his sayings', 'They were traitors: honourable men!', 'We'll burn his body in the holy place', 'Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator', 'I am Cinna the poet'.
The cobbler's puns and the crowd's prose, how both funeral speakers play on the crowd, and what the play suggests about mob rule.
Context: the tribunes Flavius and Marullus, and the anger of Rome's poorer citizens after Caesar's death.
