Monologue

Bastard Monologue from King John

From King John by William Shakespeare

male · defiant · 53 sec

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Indeed, your drums, being beaten, will cry out; And so shall you, being beaten. Do but start And echo with the clamour of thy drum, And even at hand a drum is ready brac’d That shall reverberate all as loud as thine. Sound but another, and another shall, As loud as thine, rattle the welkin’s ear And mock the deep-mouth’d thunder. For at hand, Not trusting to this halting legate here, Whom he hath us’d rather for sport than need, Is warlike John; and in his forehead sits A bare-ribb’d death, whose office is this day To feast upon whole thousands of the French.

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The character, Bastard, is rallying support for war against the French, expressing his disdain for the current diplomatic approach and emphasizing the impending violence.

20s · anger · power · death · war · betrayal

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