Monologue

Constance Monologue from King John

From King John by William Shakespeare

female · dark · 53 sec

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No, I defy all counsel, all redress, But that which ends all counsel, true redress, Death, death, O amiable, lovely death! Thou odoriferous stench, sound rottenness! Arise forth from the couch of lasting night, Thou hate and terror to prosperity, And I will kiss thy detestable bones And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows, And ring these fingers with thy household worms, And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust, And be a carrion monster like thyself. Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smil’st, And buss thee as thy wife. Misery’s love, O, come to me!

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Constance expresses her profound despair and longing for death as she grapples with her overwhelming grief and loss, rejecting all forms of counsel and redress.

30s · despair · death · misery · love

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