Dimple Monologue from The Contrast

From The Contrast by Royall Tyler

male · sarcastic · 1:01 min

Why, really, Miss Manly, you could not have asked me a question more mal-apropos. For my part, I must confess that, to a man who has traveled, there is nothing that is worthy the name of amusement to be found in this city. (CHARLOTTE: Except visiting the ladies.) Pardon me, madam; that is the avocation of a man of taste. But for amusement, I positively know of nothing that can be called so, unless you dignify with that title the hopping once a fortnight to the sound of two or three squeaking fiddles, and the clattering of the old tavern windows, or sitting to see the miserable mummers, whom you call actors, murder comedy and make a farce of tragedy. (MANLY: Do you never attend the theatre, sir?) I was tortured there once.

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