![]() And how about the scores to Tom and Jerry? A virtual Music 101 course. I was introduced to classical music and even opera through Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Yosemite Sam and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang. In the KCK, our window to the world of UHF was Channel 41, possibly the greatest kid-centric station in the history of broadcasting. Where the weird and risque’ would appear, where we would get our cartoons, the serials, monster and horror movies, Star Trek, Lost in Space, Ultra Man, Johnny Socko and His Flying Robot, Benny Hill, etc. UHF, original cable TV before there was cable TV. You old folks remember the UHF, don’t you? The channels beyond the normal VHF world of channels 1-13. And no, I am not talking about PBS here, people. I am of an age and place where (and I think many of you will relate) my exposure to culture and arts was mainly introduced through the magic of television. Bear with me My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.”Ī little high brow culture for the Rest Day Read? Well…not completely. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. ![]() You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And, sure, he is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious And Brutus is an honourable man. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest– For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men– Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones So let it be with Caesar. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The servant of Octavius arrives and tells Antony that Octavius is already in Rome and is waiting for him at Caesar's house.-Marc Antony’s speech from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare The plebeians react in a frenzy of anger against the men who killed Caesar, and carry away the body. Antony stops them and finally reads the will, in which Caesar has given every Roman citizen seventy-five drachmas and the freedom to roam his land. The crowd starts to surge away in anarchy, crying, "Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!" (3.2.196). He shows them the stab wounds and names the conspirators who gave Caesar the wounds. Next, after the plebeians beg, Antony reads Caesar's will after descending into the masses and standing next to Caesar's body. ![]() The plebeians are easily swayed and conclude that Caesar was not ambitious, and was wrongly murdered. In this way, Antony appears to praise his friend while respecting the men who murdered him, when in fact, Antony is inciting the crowd against Brutus, Cassius and the conspirators. His speech continually praises Brutus as "an honourable man" who has killed Caesar for being ambitious yet also describes Caesar as the most honorable and generous of men. Antony's speech begins with the famous lines, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" (3.2.70).
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