Monologue

Hermione Monologue from The Winter's Tale

From The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

female · anguished · 1:22 min

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I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until You had drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir, Charge him too coldly. Tell him you are sure All in Bohemia’s well: this satisfaction The by-gone day proclaimed. Say this to him, He’s beat from his best ward. (LEONTES: Well said, Hermione.) To tell he longs to see his son were strong. But let him say so then, and let him go; But let him swear so, and he shall not stay, We’ll thwack him hence with distaffs. (To Polixenes.) Yet of your royal presence I’ll adventure The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia You take my lord, I’ll give him my commission To let him there a month behind the gest Prefix’d for’s parting:—yet, good deed, Leontes, I love thee not a jar of th’ clock behind What lady she her lord. You’ll stay? (POLIXENES: No, madam.) Nay, but you will?

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Hermione expresses her deep desire to see her son while grappling with the complexities of her relationship with Leontes, revealing her emotional turmoil and the stakes of their familial bonds.

30s · longing · love · family · trust · betrayal

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