Tag: Shakespeare Speeches

Literature

A Short Analysis of Mark Antony’s ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’ Speech

Mark Antony’s ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’ speech from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a masterclass of irony and the way rhetoric can be used to say one thing but imply something quite different without ever naming it. Mark Antony delivers a funeral speech for Julius Caesar following Caesar’s assassination at the hands […]

Literature

A Short Analysis of Hamlet’s ‘Alas, Poor Yorick’ Speech

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The ‘Alas, poor Yorick’ speech from Shakespeare’s Hamlet has become one of the most famous and instantly recognisably theatre tropes – or, at least, those three words, ‘Alas, poor Yorick’, have. Perhaps the rest of Hamlet’s speech is less famous, and certainly many people […]