“Vă rog să m-ascultaţi”: o perspectivă pragmatică asupra discursului lui Marcus Antonius în Iuliu Cezar
“Lend Me Your Ears”: a Pragmatic Perspective on Mark Antony’s Speech in Julius Caesar

Summary/Abstract: Mark Antony’s speech in Act III of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, hailed as a triumph of oratory, has been traditionally analysed from a rhetorical and stylistic point of view. This article, which is a tiny tribute paid to the great playwright the year we celebrate 400 years of Shakespearean legacy, suggests a different approach to the interpretation of the famous speech, based on the tools offered by theatre pragmatics and semiotics, with a view to show how discourse can become a form of action performed on the listeners, a manipulative process that conveys communicative acts and produces effects on the addressees.

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