This 31-slide powerpoint lesson guides the class through the entire scene, starting with contextualising the scene relative to the previous events in 3.1 and demonstrating how Shakespeare changes the tone and focus in this key episode. The rhetorical power of Antony’s speech is explored in detail and compared with the preceding speech of Brutus. Students are given the opportunity to annotate the core of the speech to unpack how it works. The presentation of Antony is considered and the lesson ends with a question on his character with guidance notes about how to respond, including the all-important references to the craft of the writer.
