What does this quote mean from Julius Caesar by Shakespeare?
I’m not sure if there’s anything ironic about it but basically I think it means that Antony does not have the gift of the gab to stir people up and get a reaction, but maybe something else. That’s what I’d gather but I haven’t read this particular play, if there’s anything ironic about it, considering that it’s Shakespeare, you would have to look at the quote in context to what is going on in the play, unless the irony is dramatic irony, which is when the audience knows something the characters don’t. Again, you’d have to look at it in context, not just this quote alone, as Shakespeare tended to be clever about how he put things. Read the quote within the scene. How does it come across? Think of how the line would be delivered by an Elizabethan actor.
