Monologue

Julius Caesar Monologue from Caesar and Cleopatra

From Caesar and Cleopatra by Bernard Shaw

male · dramatic · 1:53 min

If one man in all the world can be found, now or forever, to know that you did wrong, that man will have either to conquer the world as I have, or be crucified by it.. Do you hear? These knockers at your gate are also believers in vengeance and in stabbing. You have slain their leader: it is right that they shall slay you. If you doubt it, ask your four counsellors here. And then in the name of that right shall I not slay them for murdering their Queen, and be slain in my turn by their countrymen as the invader of their fatherland? Can Rome do less then than slay these slayers, too, to show the world how Rome avenges her sons and her honor? And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.. Hearken, you who must not be insulted. Go near enough to catch their words: you will find them bitterer than the tongue of Pothinus. Let the Queen of Egypt now give her orders for vengeance, and take her measures for defense; for she has renounced Caesar.. Shaw, George Bernard, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Modern Library, 1953, p. 185.

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