Favorite Piece of Theatre

This is my favorite piece of theatre. It is Antony’s monologue from Scene 2 of Act III of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.  

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil things that men do live on after them;
The good things are often buried with their bones.
Let it be this way with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Has told you that Caesar was ambitious.
If that were true, it was a terrible fault,
And Caesar has paid for it terribly.
Here, with the permission of Brutus and the rest
(For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men),
I come to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He has brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms filled the government treasury.
Did this seem ambitious in Caesar?
Whenever the poor have cried, Caesar has wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all saw that on the Lupercal
I offered him a kingly crown three times,
Which he refused three times. Was this ambition?
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And surely he is an honorable man.
I am speaking not to disprove what Brutus said,
But I am here to say what I do know.
You all loved him once, for good reasons.
What reason keeps you from mourning for him, then?
O judgment, you have run away to dumb animals,
And men have lost their intelligence! Bear with me,
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause until it comes back to me.