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Mark Antony
[ mahrk an-tuh-nee ]
Mark Antony
noun
- See Antony
Antony, Mark
- A historical politician and general of ancient Rome , who appears as a character in the plays Antony and Cleopatraand Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare . In a famous speech in Julius Caesar , given after Caesar has been killed, Antony turns public opinion against those who did the killing. Antony's speech begins, 鈥 Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears 鈥; in it, he repeats several times the words 鈥 Brutus is an honorable man .鈥
Example Sentences
Understandable, since she had children with Julius Caesar and Caesar's lieutenant Mark Antony, whose death in her arms inspired future writers to romanticize their love story above the other.
鈥淭he last guy that made a speech in these sorts of surroundings started with 鈥榝riends, Romans and countrymen,鈥欌 he began, quoting Mark Antony from Shakespeare鈥檚 鈥淛ulius Caesar.鈥
In the love duet that opens the new opera, for which Adams borrowed a few lively lines from 鈥淭he Taming of the Shrew,鈥 Finley鈥檚 Mark Antony is without heat.
In 1962 he played Mark Antony in the New York Shakespeare Festival鈥檚 production of 鈥淛ulius Caesar.鈥
The great speeches of Brutus and Mark Antony at Caesar鈥檚 funeral were addressed to the chorus, which responded with volatile moods: aroused, becalmed, confused, manipulated.
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