Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of *Caesar* (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works.^[1]

^ McDonald, Russ (2001). The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents. Bedford/St. Martin's. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-0312248802. Retrieved 2014-11-25.

[McDonald2001-1] McDonald, Russ (2001). The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents. Bedford/St. Martin's. pp. 53–. ISBN 978-0312248802. Retrieved 2014-11-25.

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