...Antony's concerning the listening citizens: O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel The dint of pity: these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you...Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here, Here is himself, marred as you see with traitors. (3.2.191-95) This concept of soul qualifies our negative assessment...

...all of Rome: Even at the base of Pompey's statue (Which all the while ran blood) great Caesar fell. O, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and...you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. (3.2.190-94) The death of Caesar is not a universal blessing but a universal loss....

...second requires weeping in the present: Oh, now you weep, and I perceive you feel The dint of pity. These are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you...behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here! He lifts Caesar s mantle Of course, the tears that Mark Antony induces are harnessed to a particular,...