Monologue

Catherine Monologue from Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores)

From Great Catherine (Whom Glory Still Adores) by Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 48 sec

You are expected to go mad with love when an Empress deigns to interest herself in you. When an Empress allows you to see her foot you should kiss it. Captain Edstaston, you are a booby. EDSTASTON (indignantly). I am nothing of the kind. I have been mentioned in dispatches as a highly intelligent officer. And let me warn your Majesty that I am not so helpless as you think. The English Ambassador is in that ballroom. A shout from me will bring him to my side; and then where will your Majesty be?

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