Monologue

Hortensio Monologue from The Taming of the Shrew

From The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

male · comedic · 51 sec

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Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me. I did but tell her she mistook her frets, And bow’d her hand to teach her fingering; When, with a most impatient devilish spirit, ‘Frets, call you these?’ quoth she ‘I’ll fume with them’; And with that word she struck me on the head, And through the instrument my pate made way; And there I stood amazed for a while, As on a pillory, looking through the lute; While she did call me rascal fiddler, And twangling Jack, with twenty such vile terms, As had she studied to misuse me so.

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Hortensio recounts a humiliating encounter with a strong-willed woman who violently rejects his attempt to teach her music, highlighting themes of power dynamics and identity.

20s · anger · power · identity · humiliation · conflict

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