 | William Mathwes - 2005 - 460 pages
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 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 292 pages
...against the world. Now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters, if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong and Cassius wrong, 135 Who (you all know) are honorable men. I will not do them wrong. I rather choose To wrong the dead,... | |
 | Sheila McLean - Law - 2006 - 646 pages
...both sides of the coin. Mark Anthony, in Julius Caesar, certainly talks as if the dead can be wronged: 'I rather choose / to wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you / Than I will wrong such honourable men'.8 But in Macbeth Shakespeare takes a harder line: Macbeth himself, talking of the murder of Duncan... | |
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But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 
