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Julius Caesar monologues, printed in full

Antony over the body, Brutus in the orchard, Cassius on the Tiber, Portia asking to be told. Forty-four speeches from the play with the best political rhetoric in the language, public domain, printed whole and timed.

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1
Portia from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 2:30 min
You've ungently, Brutus, Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper, You suddenly arose, and walk'd about, Musing and sighing, with your arms across, And when I ask'd you what…
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Marullus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:32 min
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome, To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than…
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Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · contemplative · 0:52 min
Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear; And since you know you cannot see yourself So well as by reflection, I, your glass, Will modestly discover to yourself That of…
4
Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 3:00 min
I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus, As well as I do know your outward favour. Well, honour is the subject of my story. I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this…
5
Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:59 min
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are…
6
Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · contemplative · 0:58 min
That you do love me, I am nothing jealous; What you would work me to, I have some aim: How I have thought of this, and of these times, I shall recount hereafter. For this present,…
7
Caesar from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · contemplative · 1:18 min
Would he were fatter! But I fear him not: Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, He is a great…
8
Casca from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · comedic · 1:28 min
I can as well be hang’d, as tell the manner of it: it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown; yet ’twas not a crown neither, ’twas one of these…
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Casca from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:05 min
Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he pluck’d me ope his doublet, and offer’d them his throat to cut. And I had been a…
10
Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:08 min
I will do so: till then, think of the world. (Exit Brutus.) Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet I see, Thy honourable metal may be wrought From that it is dispos’d: therefore ’tis…
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Casca from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:10 min
A common slave, you’d know him well by sight, Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn Like twenty torches join’d, and yet his hand, Not sensible of fire remain’d…
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Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:25 min
You are dull, Casca; and those sparks of life That should be in a Roman you do want, Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze, And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder, To…
13
Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 0:55 min
And why should Caesar be a tyrant then? Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf, But that he sees the Romans are but sheep: He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. Those that with…
14
Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · philosophical · 1:47 min
It must be by his death: and for my part, I know no personal cause to spurn at him, But for the general. He would be crown’d: How that might change his nature, there’s the…
15
Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:46 min
No, not an oath. If not the face of men, The sufferance of our souls, the time’s abuse— If these be motives weak, break off betimes, And every man hence to his idle bed. So let…
16
Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:32 min
Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards; For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. Let us…
17
Portia from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:21 min
Nor for yours neither. Y’ have ungently, Brutus, Stole from my bed; and yesternight at supper, You suddenly arose, and walk’d about, Musing and sighing, with your arms across; And…
18
Portia from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:12 min
Is Brutus sick, and is it physical To walk unbraced and suck up the humours Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick, And will he steal out of his wholesome bed To dare the vile…
19
Calphurnia from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 0:55 min
Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet now they fright me. There is one within, Besides the things that we have heard and seen, Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch. A…
20
Decius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 0:53 min
I have, when you have heard what I can say; And know it now. The Senate have concluded To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar. If you shall send them word you will not come,…
21
Caesar from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 0:52 min
I must prevent thee, Cimber. These couchings and these lowly courtesies Might fire the blood of ordinary men, And turn pre-ordinance and first decree Into the law of children. Be…
22
Caesar from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:06 min
I could be well mov’d, if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me: But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality There is…
23
Servant from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 0:59 min
Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel; Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down; And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say: Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest; Caesar was…
24
Antony from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:11 min
O mighty Caesar! Dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well. I know not, gentlemen, what you intend, Who…
25
Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:55 min
O Antony, beg not your death of us. Though now we must appear bloody and cruel, As by our hands and this our present act You see we do; yet see you but our hands And this the…
26
Antony from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:57 min
I doubt not of your wisdom. Let each man render me his bloody hand. First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand. Now, Decius Brutus,…
27
Antony from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:31 min
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers. Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the…
28
Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 2:04 min
Be patient till the last. Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that…
29
Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 0:57 min
Then none have I offended. I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of his death is enroll’d in the Capitol, his glory not extenuated, wherein he…
30
Antony from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 2:18 min
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…
31
Antony from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 1:19 min
But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. O masters! If I were dispos’d to stir Your hearts and…
32
Antony from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:59 min
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle. I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; ’Twas on a Summer’s evening, in his tent, That day he…
33
Antony from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 1:35 min
Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny. They that have done this deed are honourable. What private griefs they have, alas, I know…
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Antony from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 1:13 min
So is my horse, Octavius; and for that I do appoint him store of provender. It is a creature that I teach to fight, To wind, to stop, to run directly on, His corporal motion…
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Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:12 min
You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm’d so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I…
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Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:02 min
Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come, Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius, For Cassius is a-weary of the world: Hated by one he loves; brav’d by his brother; Check’d like a…
37
Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:30 min
It was well done, and thou shalt sleep again; I will not hold thee long. If I do live, I will be good to thee. (Lucius plays and sings till he falls asleep.) This is a sleepy…
38
Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dark · 1:10 min
Messala, This is my birth-day; as this very day Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala: Be thou my witness that against my will As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set Upon one…
39
Cassius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:00 min
Come down; behold no more. O, coward that I am, to live so long, To see my best friend ta’en before my face! (Pindarus descends.) Come hither, sirrah. In Parthia did I take thee…
40
Titinius from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 1:04 min
Hie you, Messala, And I will seek for Pindarus the while. (Exit Messala.) Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius? Did I not meet thy friends? And did not they Put on my brows…
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Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · anguished · 0:57 min
Are yet two Romans living such as these? The last of all the Romans, fare thee well! It is impossible that ever Rome Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears To this…
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Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · melancholic · 0:54 min
Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius. Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep; Farewell to thee too, Strato.—Countrymen, My heart doth joy, that yet in all my life I…
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Artemidorus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · dramatic · 1:02 min
“Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus Cimber; Decius Brutus loves thee not; thou hast…
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Brutus from Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · play · defiant · 1:05 min
The exhalations, whizzing in the air Give so much light that I may read by them. (Opens the letter and reads.) Brutus, thou sleep’st: awake and see thyself. Shall Rome, &c. Speak,…

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