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Hannah Kennedy Monologue from Mary Stuart: A Tragedy

From Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

female · anguished · 57 sec

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Books are denied her to divert her mind. (PAULET: The Bible still is left to mend her heart.) Even of her very lute she is deprived! (PAULET: Because she tuned it to her wanton airs.) Is this a fate for her, the gentle born, Who in her very cradle was a queen? Who, reared in Catherine's luxurious court, Enjoyed the fulness of each earthly pleasure? Was't not enough to rob her of her power, Must ye then envy her its paltry tinsel? A noble heart in time resigns itself To great calamities with fortitude; But yet it cuts one to the soul to part At once with all life's little outward trappings!

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30s · sadness · power · isolation · identity · fate

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