APPENDIX

SECTION III

PHRASING,
PAUSES,

INFLECTION,

MODULATION,

VOCAL EXPRESSION,

GESTURE,

FACIAL EXPRESSION.

PHRASING.

IN REFERENCE TO BREATH.

N.B.-The vertical lines indicate where breath is to be taken.

Bru.

JULIUS CAESAR.

Exercise 1. Act III. Scene 1.

By your pardon ;

I will myself into the pulpit first, |
And show the reason of our Cæsar's death: |
What Antony shall speak, | I will protest
He speaks by leave | and by permission; |
And that we are contented Cæsar shall
Have all due rites | and lawful ceremonies. |
It shall advantage more than do us wrong.

Cas. I know not what may fall; I like it not. |
Bru. Mark Antony, here, take you Cæsar's body. I
You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,
But speak all good you can devise of Cæsar; |
And say, you do't by our permission ; |
Else shall you not have any hand at all
About his funeral. | And you shall speak
In the same pulpit whereto I am going, |
After my speech is ended. I

Ant.

I do desire no more. |

Be it so ; |

Bru. Prepare the body, then, and follow us.

[Exeunt all but ANTONY.

Ant. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, | That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! | Thou art the ruins of the noblest man |

That ever lived in the tide of times. |

Woe to the hands that shed this costly blood! |
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,- |
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips |
To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue,— |
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; |
Domestic fury and fierce civil strife, |

Shall cumber all the parts of Italy; |
Blood and destruction shall be so in use, |
And dreadful objects so familiar, |

That mothers shall but smile | when they behold
Their infants quartered with the hands of war, |
All pity choked with custom of fell deeds : |
And Cæsar's spirit ranging for revenge,
With Até by his side, come hot from hell, |
Shall in these confines | with a monarch's voice
Cry Havoc !' and let slip the dogs of war ; |
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth |
With carrion men groaning for burial. |

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