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Damian Lewis as Antony in Julius Caesar: 'Friends, Romans, countrymen' " video

by Dan Susman, Jess Gormley, Pascal Wyse, Liese Spencer, Emma John, Chris Wiegand

To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, we asked leading actors to perform key speeches from his plays. Here, Damian Lewis performs Antony's lines from act III, scene 2 of Julius Caesar. Antony has been granted permission to speak at Caesar's funeral so long as he does not implicate the conspirators in his death, but he skilfully turns the crowd against themRead the full text for this speech Read more a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:10am on May 3, 2016